The Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) for Somerset would like every young person living in the county to be safe, happy, healthy and prepared for adulthood. We are now writing the next Children and Young People’s Plan 2024-30 and the young people in the Youth Forum have decided what’s most important to them and designed a way to engage with as many children and young people in Somerset as possible.

The CYPP sets out how services and communities will work together to ensure the ambitions of the Plan and be accountable to our children and young people. By helping as many children and young people as possible to be engaged with writing the Plan, services will know what children and young people think should happen to improve their lives.

“I like being part of a really special community, it’s been great supporting other young people to make a positive change” – a member of Youth Forum

Practitioners, teachers and youth workers can support young people to have a voice and make a difference by sharing this link to our survey https://forms.office.com/e/dNHr44HCfn

For those people working with groups, we have a session plan and evidence form for you to engage young people in a group activity, which can be downloaded here https://tinyurl.com/CYPPSessionPlanAndEvaluation

Engagement with children and young people will be strengthened by collaborating with the Somerset Youth Work Alliance, a partnership of VCFSE youth work organisations developing the landscape of youth work across Somerset. Facilitated by Spark Somerset, the Alliance consists of 21 members (and growing) who are working with young people and together to achieve its vision of a high quality, co-produced and inclusive youth work offer in Somerset. More information can be found at www.sparksomerset.org.uk/projects/somerset-youth-work-alliance

For more Information contact – participationmailbox@somerset.gov.uk