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Young people's workshops - July 2022

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Are you aged 11 - 17 and a Barnet resident? If so, share your opinions to help improve services for young people and receive a £30 shopping voucher! 

Barnet Council wants to know how young people feel about their local area to help develop its new plan for improving the lives of young people. Over 500 young people across the borough have already voiced their views (via a survey conducted late 2021/early 2022) on topics such as safety, schooling, and wellbeing.

We are now running group discussions in July 2022 to better understand young people’s experiences and we’re keen

Are you aged 11 - 17 and a Barnet resident? If so, share your opinions to help improve services for young people and receive a £30 shopping voucher! 

Barnet Council wants to know how young people feel about their local area to help develop its new plan for improving the lives of young people. Over 500 young people across the borough have already voiced their views (via a survey conducted late 2021/early 2022) on topics such as safety, schooling, and wellbeing.

We are now running group discussions in July 2022 to better understand young people’s experiences and we’re keen to involve a wide range of young people. Even if you have never participated in similar sessions or have little interest in them, we welcome your input. And remember, participants will get a £30 online shopping voucher as an appreciation of their time.


When are sessions taking place? 

Group discussions will be held in mid-July at different locations in the borough, from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, to ensure diverse communities are represented. Participants will be allocated to sessions based on the constituency they live in, for example, Edgware residents would attend the Hendon constituency session. Venue locations will be confirmed nearer the time, see details below:


Constituency

Date

Location

Hendon

12 July 2022

Barnet Council Office,

2 Bristol Avenue
Colindale, NW9 4EW

Finchley and Golders Green

13 July 2022

Finchley Church End Library

318 Regents Park Road,
London, N3 2LN

Chipping Barnet

14 July 2022

Chipping Barnet Library,

3 Stapylton Road,
Barnet, EN5 4QT


How to register for a session

If you are aged 11 - 17 years and want to get involved, please ask your parent, carer or guardian to complete the consent section on the registration form below. Once they have completed the consent form your parent, carer or guardian can then pass to you to complete some further questions.

Registration for the workshops has now closed.

How will participants be selected? 

We will use the information you give us to ensure that different communities are represented at these group discussions. If you are allocated a place, we will contact you within 1 working day and will provide you with further details of the workshop you have been allocated to.

If we are oversubscribed for the workshops and you don’t get a place on this occasion, we will direct you to other opportunities to voice your views.


What happens after the engagement closes?

We will use the engagement findings to inform the development of our new Children and Young People’s Plan. We will publish the results of the engagement and how we are acting on the results on this web page in November 2022.

The registration for the workshops has now closed.

  • We asked, you said, we did

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    We asked

    We asked young people for their views on several topics to help us unpack key findings from the young person survey (YPS) 2021-222. Topics covered included learning more about young people’s experiences of living in Barnet, their satisfaction with the local area, if they felt Barnet is a Family Friendly borough, understanding and exploring: their top three concerns: feeling safe in the borough; their top personal safety concerns and their health and well-being.


    You said

    Six workshops were delivered in July with 63 young people across the borough participating. Young people provided useful insights on what they like about the borough, voiced their concerns while exploring the potential reasons behind the YPS results. The importance of raising greater awareness of services and building relationships with young people was highlighted in all sessions.

    We did

    We analysed the insights gathered from the workshops and shared key findings with relevant stakeholders. This report was also presented to the Barnet Children’s Partnership Board in November 2022, and included the following recommendations:

    Adopt a holistic approach to deepen understanding: as there are many perspectives on the reasons behind the YPS results, the findings from this engagement should be contextualised and considered with other insights to drive improvements. Focus areas to include, but not limited to:

    • supporting schools to effectively deal with sensitive issues such as racism and homophobia
    • improving understanding of different types of disabilities and mental health issues to foster greater empathy
    • enhancing relationship with Barnet Carers Centre to ensure the views and experiences of young carers inform service improvements.
    • identifying ways to raise greater awareness of what the council does to support Barnet residents, especially young people.

    Share and incorporate findings to improve services: ensure that findings from this research are presented at relevant meetings or boards (for example, the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Partnership Board) and incorporated into the development of the Children and Young People’s Plan.

    Work is underway to incorporate the recommendations to improve the lives of children and young people in the borough.