The Young Essex Assembly (YEA) is an elected group of young people from across Essex. There are 75 members, similar to the number of County Councillors that we have. It gives young people in Essex a voice by Councillors working together with the youth members and youth organisations. 24,000 under 18s were asked what they wanted their YEA to concentrate on - environment, sex and relationship education, transport and leisure. 12 of the elected members were then elected to represent Essex on the UK Youth Parliament working with central government.
What we need to work on is why the kids from the local schools in Colchester have not heard of the YEA. Why did we not know (and this is me included) that nominations for new members had to be in by 30th September. I'm working on this now and will let you know how I get on.
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