Young NCB Priorities
Every two years Young NCB members choose key subjects that
they think are the big issues for children and young people in
the UK today. They then try to find ways of tackling these issues
through talking to the government, having events or doing
activities that will raise awareness of these issues with other
children and young people, adults and decision makers.
We have recently chosen two new areas to focus on for 2012-2014
which are:
- Challenging Discrimination - see below for pictures!
- Wake up to Your World - check out our priority trees (scroll
down to see more)
The 2012-14 priorities were selected in January. ‘Wake up to
your world’ is addressing how young people are able to influence
and local and national decisions, covering politics
and current affairs. The Discrimination priority is
about challenging discrimination which children and young people
face, understanding differences in our
communities and celebrating them whilst reducing
discrimination. At their April meeting, the Advisory Group will be looking in more detail at
what projects and research we would like to complete under each
priority, and what impact on children and young people’s lives we
want these priorities to make.
We'll add some pages and update information as we go along so
keep checking back to find out more information and if you want to
tell the Advisory Group any of your ideas then you can email them
at info@youngncb.org.uk
For 2010-2011 the priorities were:
We're not limited to just our two main key priorities, we also
have other issues that are of concern to our members. Some of
the past topics which have been worked on previously are:
Our latest workshops on Young NCB's priorities:
In this Advisory Group meeting on Saturday 18 February we looked
at our new priority headlines in more detail. The Advisory
Group thought about what they could do and what they
hoped to accomplish under each of the priorities by creating
‘Priority Trees’. This exercise aimed to get initial thoughts and
ideas for each priority.
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The roots of the tree represented the main concerns, problems
and why this topic is important for children and young people; we
then looked at the leaves which represented the aims and outcomes
we wanted to achieve and what impact this would have on children
and young people’s lives; we looked at what support and resources
we would need which became the trunk; and lastly the branches which
represented what we would do and how we would do it to achieve the
aims and outcomes.
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