Easter meeting

At this month's meeting we fed back from Jane Hutt's Spring Breakfast which put an emphasis on apprenticeships in STEM areas. We also talked about the Emoji's project presentation evening and the Healthy and Safe event to which we had sent a video explaining the importance of supporting young people affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

We discussed our attendance at the Carwyn Connect evening and discussed our views on increasing the use of the Welsh language through pride and inspiration rather than force.  We are also pleased we have been asked to write the foreword for the Trans Inclusion Toolkit which is being developed by the Council.  And we are excited to be invited to a youth exchange this summer in Fecamp.

At tonight's meeting we completed the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales' SenseMaker Survey, discussing the main challenges facing Wales in the future and looking at the 4 challenges that have been identified by the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.  We also discussed the results of the Youth Satisfaction Survey and we are beginning to write a report on our findings.

Meeting update!

Tonight was the first meeting of the new Youth Cabinet.  We invited Jennifer Hill, the Director of Learning & Skills at the Vale of Glamorgan Council to come along and discuss the Trans*Form Cymru Charter and how we can empower and support Trans* young people in our community.  This is something the Youth Cabinet are really supportive of.  We also started to plan our new action plan and discussed the different ways we can support young people living in the Vale.  We also considered a new logo for the Youth Cabinet and started planning short videos to showcase the importance of youth work in the run up to Youth Work Week in Wales. Finally we continued to plan our exciting town twinning youth camp in Mouscron, Belgium.  We cannot wait!!!