West Sussex Youth Cabinet
What is the West Sussex Youth Cabinet?
The West Sussex Youth Cabinet is a group of young locality representatives and the 4 UK Youth Parliament representatives, who are democratically elected by young people from all around West Sussex. The Youth Cabinet represents the views of the young people in their areas at county level.
The project is currently in its 9th year and works closely alongside the County Council and the Youth Service.
What does the Youth Cabinet do?
Our job is to represent young people's interests, views and concerns at meetings and events with adults and other young people, locally, nationally and even internationally. As well as this, we work on projects which aim to improve situations and solve problems that affect young people.
Examples of some of the work that the Youth Cabinet has done include the 3-in-1 scheme, multiple awareness films, annual school councils’ conference, promotion of the eco-schools scheme, and many more…
Who can be on the Youth Cabinet?
Any one between the ages of 11 and 19 can apply to be on the Youth Cabinet during election periods. The Youth Cabinet is for all young people with all different kinds of needs, passions, wants and aims to always be representative of all young people. Interested? Then why not Click here to apply as a candidate and don't forget that the deadline for all applications has now been extended to 23 February 2010.