Are you a young person who would like to get involved in Children’s Rights activities or find out more? There are lots of ways to get involved - from joining school councils and local groups to taking part in surveys.
Local Opportunities
Schools and Colleges
If you currently attend school or college there will be ways you can get involved there. You can express your views and influence decisions in many ways. For example, you could join a school council or ambassadors scheme, or use a suggestion box. Ask an adult at your school to find out more.
Cornwall Youth Council
You can find out about the Cornwall Youth Council on the Lets Talk Cornwall website.
The Annual Conversation
You can find out more about the Annual Conversation on our Annual Conversation information page.
Other Groups
We work with Community Area Partnerships. These groups bring local people and organisations together to work on local issues in Cornwall. They help communities have a say and decide what needs improving in their area. This helps us link young people with what’s going on in their local areas. It means that local decision-makers listen to young people’s views.
These are some of the groups that Cornwall Youth Council currently work with. More will be added over the coming months.
We are always interested in working with youth group and forums for Cornwall Youth Council. It is important for us to make sure that Cornwall's youth voice represents as many different young people as possible. If you are involved with a group and would like to be included in this list please contact: youthcouncil@cornwall.gov.uk
- Camborne Youth Council – for more information visit the website or contact Rose at engagement@camborne-tc.gov.uk.
- Truro Youth Council – facilitated by Young People Cornwall
- Speak Up Cornwall – also facilitated by Young People Cornwall
- Carefree Cornwall
- SENDitForward – This partnership gives an opportunity for young people with SEND to become Young Ambassadors and Champions. They can represent other young people with SEND in Cornwall. For more information contact Sammy Lee-Newman at sammy-lee.newman@actionforchildren.org.uk
Have your Say
You can find out who your local Councillor is and how to contact them by going to our Councillors and meetings page.
You can find out when the Council meets. There is also a way to submit a Public question.
The Council seeks people’s views and opinions on lots of different things going on in Cornwall.
You can have your say by completing the surveys and polls on our Let’s Talk website.
At the moment, most people who answer the surveys are adults over 50 years old and we want to hear more from young people.
National Opportunities
We work with organisations across the UK to connect local young people with national youth voice opportunities.
UK Youth Parliament (National Youth Agency)
The UK Youth Parliament is made up of more than 300 young people. They are elected as Members of Youth Parliament (MYPs) to represent the views of other young people. The National Youth Agency currently runs the UK Youth Parliament.