Meet the new Youth Cabinet 2018-19

At last night's Vale Youth Forum meeting, members voted for the new Youth Cabinet.  The new Youth Cabinet will be in post until September 2019. The new Youth Cabinet members are:

• Daley Chapman, aged 17: representing Barry Comp & current Deputy Youth Mayor  
• Sana Malik, aged 15: representing Bryn Hafren
• Jules Trahearn-O'Brien, aged 16: representing Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg 
• Ben Lloyd, aged 16: representing Cowbridge Comp
• Nikita Harrhy, aged 15: representing St Cyres
• Ushenka Rajapakse, aged 15: representing Cowbridge Comp
• Isaac Cramb, aged 12: representing St Richard Gwyn 

Welcome to the team!

Hello, we are Ben and Ushenka, we are the two new members of the Youth Cabinet who have been successfully elected by members of the Vale Youth Forum at tonight's meeting.  We are both 15 years old and from Cowbridge Comprehensive School.  We have both been on the Vale Youth Forum for over a year and are really passionate about ensuring the views of young people are heard by decision-makers.  We're both looking forward to our first meeting and getting involved straight away!  

Congratulations!

At last night's Vale Youth Forum meeting, the Leader of the Council, Cllr Neil Moore and the Vale of Glamorgan Mayor, Cllr Stuart Egan announced the new Youth Mayor.  

Daniel Marshall from Cowbridge Comprehensive was elected as Youth Mayor and Daley Chapman from Barry Comprehensive was elected as Deputy Youth Mayor.  In total, 3992 votes were cast by young people across the county during Local Democracy Week.  Congratulations to both!      

Youth Mayor Elections 2016

Next week, young people across the Vale of Glamorgan will have the chance to vote for their next Vale Youth Mayor. This year, 3 youth cabinet members are standing in the election.  Daley Chapman, aged 15 from Barry, Daniel Marshall aged 16 from Cowbridge and Rhys Powell aged 14 from Barry.

The elections will take place all week during Local Democracy Week, 10-14th October 2016 and will be held in secondary schools, youth clubs, youth organisations and training providers in the county.  

Please watch the candidate's manifestos and get ready to vote!

 

Back to work!

This afternoon, the Youth Cabinet held it's first meeting of the term.  The first item on the agenda involved evaluating the twinning youth camp we attended in Mouscron, Belgium at the beginning of August.  We have made a presentation about our trip which we will be presenting to the Vale of Glamorgan Twinning Association to tell them about our experience and to thank them for all their support.

Also on the agenda was the National Assembly for Wales' enquiry into Youth Work which is currently being run by the Children, Young People and Education committee.  We gave our views on youth services in Wales and you too can take part in the survey here.  We also had our say on what we thought of the new Welsh Government Travel Behaviour Code which has been an ongoing piece of work for us since 2014.

It's not long until the next Youth Mayor election which will take place during Local Democracy Week (week commencing 10th October).  This is a busy time for the Youth Cabinet and some of our members are already preparing their manifestos hoping to get your vote to be the next Youth Mayor for 2016-17.  

Election time!

Last night was the third Youth Cabinet election.  The election was held at the monthly Vale Youth Forum meeting and 11 VYF members presented their manifestos.  Candidates gave passionate speeches in a chance to be voted as one of six Youth Cabinet members.  Everyone wanted the vote!  The new Youth Cabinet will be in office until September 2017.  Check out this short video for a snippet of the candidates manifestos:

Campaign for The Children and Young People's Assembly for Wales: what do young people want?

At the Vale Youth Forum meeting last night and as discussed at a recent youth cabinet meeting we talked about a current campaign being run to find out what young people want from the National Assembly for Wales. On the 5th May, people in Wales will vote for the next National Assembly for Wales and we need to make sure the politicians know what's important to young people and what we want them to do for us!  You can also get involved in the campaign and give your views and opinions by emailing: engagement@cypaw.wales.