West Sussex Youth Cabinet

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What is the West Sussex Youth Cabinet?

The Youth Cabinet is made up of 48 young people, aged 11-18 from across the county. Our goal is to give young people in West Sussex a voice to effect change and make a difference to their local communities.

What do the Youth Cabinet do?

Youth Cabinet meetings happen monthly around the county (and you get your travel refunded!)

The work we do helps us gain an insight into the constituents concerns and the spending of government money on young people’s local social action projects which make a difference or highlight an issue of concern for young people.

In Youth Cabinet you will learn a huge variety of skills, including film making, radio shows, running anti-radicalisation campaigns, creating projects with ‘hard-to-reach’ groups, working with professionals and decision makers and lots lots more.

Find out more on our Youth Cabinet and UK Youth Parliament website (opens in new window)

How do I become part of West Sussex Youth Cabinet?

You will stand for election in one of 24 areas. The 2 candidates with the most votes in each area are elected to Youth Cabinet (with the exception of Horsham and Crawley where 4 candidates are elected).

What is UK Youth Parliament?

UK Youth Parliament involves 500 young people, aged 11-18 from across the UK, giving young people a voice nationally about issues that affect them.

The UKYP runs national campaigns such as Votes at 16, Knife Crime and others and as an MYP you represent young people locally and nationally on such issues on their behalf.

How do I become part of UK Youth Parliament?

The process: 4 UKYP reps for West Sussex. Stand for election in 1 of 4 areas*. 2 candidates with the most votes get elected as MYP and DMYP.

The responsibility: South East regional meetings are held every 2 months. You will represent approximately 23,000 young people, and hold MYP ‘surgeries’ as often as possible to listen to their views.

Find out more at our British Youth Council UK Youth Parliament website (opens in new window)

Alternate formats

If you require any of the information in an alternative format, then please contact us via email at toby.wilson@westsussex.gov.uk or by telephone on 0330 222 3314 and we will do our best to assist you. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 0330 222 3314.

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Data protection/Privacy notice

The Voice and Participation team will use this questionnaire to collect personal and special category data the processing of which is necessary to enable us to be compliant with the law (general well-being duties), and for reasons of substantial public interest. The data will be processed in accordance with the 2018 Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulations, and any subsequent data protection legislation. The data we collect be securely stored and kept for period of up to 2 years before being appropriately destroyed. The data we will collect will not be used for any other purpose than that stated above without your prior written consent. West Sussex County Council is registered as Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further details and information about our Data Controller, please see www.westsussex.gov.uk/privacy-policy.