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:

• Improving the media representation of young people
• Fear of crime

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:

• Education and careers advice
• Raising awareness of children’s rights
• Transport

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.

	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.