Walsall Viewfinder consultation calendar

Childrens Trust Youth Opinions Unite are working with the United Kingdom Youth Parliament (UKYP) Members and Deputy Members for Walsall. The UKYP representatives will be consulting with young people across the Borough to find out their views on knife and gang crime in Walsall. Adults were also asked for their comments too. This will be their main local campaign for their elected term 2010/2011. The need to consult with young people came from a questionnaire delivered during the 2010 elections. The questionnaire asked young people what their main issues and concerns were as a young person living or attending school in Walsall. Over 7000 young people completed the questionnaire and the top issue was Knife and gang crime in Walsall.

Parental engagement in shaping and developing services relating to transition is critical in ensuring that the services reflect their needs and meeting the requirements of the National Transition Strategy which forms part of Aiming High for Disabled Children.

These small groups of young people chosen by Walsall Schools to represent the school during the Building Schools for the Future programme from start to finish. The groups of 10 or so young people are taken from year 7 and primary feeder schools. The purpose of the consultation activity is to involve the young people as a small stakeholder panel throughout the whole of the programme delivery to test out the benefits realisation of the transformation. The involvement will include invites to consutlations, photographs and comments, visits, inclusion in school based events and benefits realisation monitoring throughout the programme.

As part of the development of the new Walsall hospice in Goscote, artists are working with the local community to develop involvement and understanding in the work of the Palliative Care Centre and the creation of pieces of artwork for the new building. Three artists will be working with local residents to gather their thoughts and ideas. This consultation will inform the development of artistic works which will be placed in and around the new building, the works will take the form of a piece of stained glass for the Sacred Space, a 3D piece for the Courtyard and 2D photographic pieces for the interior. Workshops based around the theme of 'Celbrating Life' will be delivered to local people from communities around the Goscote site. Through sensitive conversations and creative participatory arts activities with local people, we will build up a background of material which will inform the creation of all artworks made.

Transforming Learning in Walsall is a major programme being developed to provide children and young people with the best possible opportunities for educational achievement and make growing up in Walsall as good as it can be for young people in the borough. This includes our involvement in the Building Schools for the Future Programme (BSF) to transform secondary schools and deliver our strategy for secondary education provision, the Primary Capital Programme (PCP) to transform primary schools and deliver the strategy for primary education provision and the Academies development programme. The programme will involve a number of communication and consultation activities throughout the life of the programme to ensure that stakeholders are involved in the development of this transformation. It will involve children and young people, parents, teachers, governors, local residents and specialist professionals. The young voice part of the consultation will seek the views of children