CONNEXIONS NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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CONNEXIONS NOTTINGHAMSHIRE YOUTH BOARD
PRODUCED BY HIDY AND GABRIELLE
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CONNEXIONS
Connexion provides information, advice and a
guidance service for young people who are at the
age of 13 to 19, up to 25 for young people with
learning difficulties or disabilities. It also
values ideas from young people.
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RIGHTS OF THE CHILD ANNIVERSARY
Convention on the Rights of a Child

• Adopted by United Nations and opened for
  signature on 20th November 1989.

• International convention concerning childrens
  right

• Includes all human right areas for children
  protection

• Aspects in civil, economic, political, cultural
  and society

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Convention Content

• 54 articles which deal with specific childrens
  needs

• Children have certain basic rights (e.g. Life,
  Name, Identity, Opinion being heard and acted on
  privacyetc)

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Core Principles

• Non-Discrimination

• Devotion to the best interests of the child

• The right to life, survival and development

• Respect for views of the child

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Rights of a child anniversary

• Connexions has signed up to the article
  concerning the rights of a child to express views
  and have them taken seriously in all decisions
  affecting them. (Article 12)

• To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the United
  Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
  this event is organized by the newly formed
  Connexions Youth Board.
• Formed in October 2009

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RIGHTS OF A CHILD
EVERY CHILD HAS A VOICE AND HAS A RIGHT TO BE
HEARD AND HAS A RIGHT TO HAVE THEIR OWN OPINIONS
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CONNEXIONS YOUTH BOARD
Connexions Nottinghamshire Youth Board is set up
to give young people a voice in Connexions work.
We promote Connexions Nottinghamshire and speak
on behalf of young people, this is exactly in
line with the Rights of the Child Convention
expressing views.
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CONNEXIONS YOUTH BOARD
We, the members of the Youth Board will meet for
training and a variety of Connexions
Nottinghamshire tasks through face-to-face
meetings and by electronic means and also work
towards Volunteering and ASDAN Youth Awards.
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CONNEXIONS YOUTH BOARD TRAINING
We first trained for the Youth Board on 26th and
27th October 2009 at Mansfield Town Football
Club with our enthusiastic participation we were
able to form our new Youth Board.
Following recruitment throughout September, young
people from the newly formed Connexions
Nottinghamshire Youth Board met together for 2
days. 15 of the 25 young people were available to
complete the training, the other 10 being on
holiday or unwell.
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TRAINING DAY ONE
On day one, there were a variety of sessions
aimed at Getting everyone to know each other
Start team Building Informed of a variety of
accreditation we could work towards,
including a Bronze Youth Achievement Award, an
Act by Right Youth Award and a
V-Involved Volunteering Award Equality and
Diversity plus representing others, facilitated
by the Race Equality Commission Notes and
information from this session are being compiled
into a pack by 2 Youth Board members for future
use with new members.
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PICTURE OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE YOUTH BOARD.
ALEX
HARRY
ASHLEY
JACOB
AMY
JAMES
STEPH
HIDY
LISA
YASMIN
SIAN
KELLY
GABBY
KIRSTY
LOUIS
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THE WHOLE GROUP WHO ATTENDED THE 2 DAYS AND WHO
MADE IT POSSIBLE
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TRAINING DAY TWO
On day two there were further team building
sessions Tour of the ground and team
facilities at MTFC, carried out by MTFC
Football in the Community trainer. Youth Board
members split into 3 groups to discuss 3
different topics. - The Connexions
Community - An operational model For the Youth
Board, including starting a constitution
- Connexions websites, publications and
communications. Each group then did a
presentation on their findings to the other
groups. We then looked at the possible future
tasks and began to prioritise some work.
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HOME
CHANGING ROOMS
AWAY
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END OF TWO DAYS
At the end of the two days we had - completed
Challenge 1 of the Bronze Youth Award, had
started to gain evidence for the first 3
units of Act by Right and had collected
volunteer hours. agreed to keep in touch via
phone, email and a member area on
sortitonline, whilst forming a Communication sub
group to look at the way forward for carrying
out Youth Board work virtually between
quarterly meetings. another small group formed
to carry on looking at the constitution and
another to look at a logo and corporate image
for the Youth Board. We all found the 2 days
very positive, as did the Connexions staff
involved. As Louis, one Youth Board members, put
it in an email that was great cya soon
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EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
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EQUALITY
Equality is about creating a fairer society where
everyone can participate and has the opportunity
to fulfill their potential. It is backed up by
the law designed to address unfair
discrimination. Equality is not about doing
people favours, lowering standards, tokenism or a
numbers games.
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• PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM
• TO SPEAK AND HAVE THEIR OPINION HEARD

• WOMEN WERE NOT ABLE TO VOTE UNTIL 1928

The DDA act came in 1995.

• The Disability Discrimination Act is a piece of
  law that promotes civil rights for disabled
  people and protects disabled people from
  discrimination

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DIVERSITY
Diversity is about the recognition and valuing of
difference in its broadest sense. It is about
creating a culture and working practices that
recognise, respect, value and takes into account
differences for the benefit of the organisation
and individual.
EMBRACE OUR DIFFERENCE
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• NO MATTER IF YOU LOVE
• THE SAME SEX YOU SHOULD
• STILL BE TREATED EQUALLY

• NO MATTER WHAT BACKGROUND
• YOURE FROM YOURE AN EQUAL

• WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS
• AND SHOULD BE TREATED
• WITH RESPEACT

REGARDLESS OF OUR OWN BELIEFS AND IDENTITIES, WE
SHOULD ENSURE THAT WE SHOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON ABOUT THEIR RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS, POLITICAL BELIEFS, RACE, GENDER, SEXUAL
ORIENTATION, AGE OR DISABILITY.
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WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, AND HOW CAN THE
CONNEXIONS YOUTH BOARD ACHIEVE WHAT IT WANTS?
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WHAT?

• Getting young people involved in decision making.

• Getting young people views across.

• Working together to achieve something and
  hitting targets.

• Speaking on behalf of young people.

• Building young peoples confidence and
  self-esteem.

• People from different backgrounds.

• Promoting Connexions.

• Making a difference whether its big or small.

• Identifying needs-areas with few things
  happening for young people.

• Choices.

• Making sure Connexions does what its meant to
  do.

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Who?

• We have 25 young people so far on the Youth Board.

• Our target is 40 young people so we are looking
  for another 15 young people to join our team.

• We are looking for young people aged 12 to 19,
  people with disabilities up to the age of 25.

• We are looking for more young people from the
  City, as well as young
• people who have disabilities.

• Young parents. (male and female)

• Young people from youth justice

• Looking for people who are in care.

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Where and When?

• We are looking to meet up every 3 months.

• We will meet up for task finish as required in
  between.

• We will set up a blog on a social network site

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WHY?

• Adults dont always know everything.

• It is important to have young people to get
  involved in decision
• making on things that affect them.

• To check that Connexions Centres and Services
  meet young peoples
• needs

• To make sure Connexions resources are young
  people friendly

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ANY QUESTIONS?
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THANKS FOR LISTENING