Leicester Children’s Council is gearing up for a summer of exciting developments. The next four months will see the Children’s Council recruiting 16 new members from across the city to enable it to widely represent the 7-13 age group of Leicester’s young people.

They will be purchasing five new Wot Boxes to help young people, within their local areas to become young reporters and report on local issues. The information will help them produce a citywide Children’s Council Newsletter which will be produced quarterly. If that’s not enough, they will be working towards ensuring that young people aged 7-13 years are represented on the Children’s Centre and Sure Start Advisory Boards.

The Children’s Council Mentors are working hard to support the developments by delivering fortnightly workshops at eight libraries across Leicester. Will Hough, one of the four mentors, said: “It is a really exciting time for the Children’s Council. They have worked hard in bringing together all their ideas for the development plan.”

The Children’s Council Newsletter will help to capture the local issues from young people and enable them to feed information to the Young People’s Council for the city. This will ensure the concerns gathered can be passed on to people within the City Council.

The Children’s Council is holding a recruitment event on June 29th. It’s from 5pm-6.30pm at SDSA on Bishop Street, in the city centre. Anyone aged 7-13 who is interested in finding out about the Children’s Council and becoming a rep should contact Tina Barton.

Leicester Children’s Council has just produced the ‘We All Matter’ report. They have recently consulted with 1132 young people aged 5-22 from across the city, about issues that are important to them. For a copy of this report e-mail tina@wotboxcons.co.uk