Heulwen, Author at Youth Sirgar

https://www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/makeyourmark/

We are backing the ‘MAKE YOUR MARK’ ballot, the largest youth consultation across the UK and this year are aiming to encourage over 6000 young people aged 11 – 18 years across Carmarthenshire to get involved and vote on the most important issues to them.

Amber Treharne from Burry Port has been elected to represent Carmarthenshire and Wales as Carmarthenshire’s UK Youth Parliament member for 2019/20.

Last year over 1.1 million young people took part in the national ballot that decided on which issues were debated by the UK Youth Parliament at the UKYP sitting in the House of Commons.

It is slightly different this year as there are 3 votes on the ballot paper:

1. 1 vote from 5 UK wide topics which are listed.

2. 1 vote from 5 Devolved topics.

3. A space for you to write what you think the Local topic is.

The ballot will run until Noon on Wednesday 9th October and voting can be done online or via a paper ballot which are available from Carmarthenshire Youth Council.

Ballot papers will also be sent to all Secondary School Councils and Youth Projects in Carmarthenshire to encourage every young person within the county to get involved in ‘Make your Mark’ and help spread the word, so that Wales has a voice on a UK level.

On the 8th November 2019 – Members of the UK Youth Parliament will come together to debate and decide, on the most important issues to campaign on for the year ahead.

For more information contact the Participation team on Participation@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

On Thursday the 20th of November 2014 in order to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of Universal Children’s rights Day we held our Annual Youth Conference.

The decision was to focus on the topic of domestic abuse following consultation with young people across the county. Young people were asked what issues were most important to them and effected them the most on a day to day basis.

Young people were given an insight on what domestic abuse is and given a chance to discuss their perception of Domestic Abuse.

It was good to see that most young people could identify the 5 main themes of domestic abuse. None, however, were able to define domestic abuse.

At the end of 2014 Carmarthenshire Youth Council attended a meeting of the Carmarthenshire Children and Young People’s Partnership (CYPP) to provide feedback on the conference and to highlight the main findings of this report.

2014-Abuse-At-Home-Youre-Not-Alone-Report Download the PDF

Make Your Mark 2019

Abuse At Home, You’re Not Alone!