The Youth4U Programme is now headed under one of BYC's partnerships Participation Works. BYC are now hosting a number of the resources and results that came from young people engaging in their communities through the youth4U programme.

Listen to videos and podcasts from Young Inspectors from across the UK. Here they discuss services, rap about their experiences, and give advice to local organisations on how they can benefit from involving young people in decision making.

 

The Young Inspectors are here to tell you what the Young Inspectors programme is all about! Listen as they stroll through what it means to be a young person assessing local services, why your voice is important, and the best way to make changes to services in your community.

01 Young Inspector Song by British Youth Council

 

Top tips from various young inspectors to councillors. Straight from young people!

 

In Devon word of mouth is particularly important when it comes to hearing about youth services. Rhiannon and Clarise also discuss how advertising youth services helps them know the services are there.

 

Local Services are important to young people says Linda!

 

Stephen finds that the varying opening times of some youth services in Essex makes it difficult for young people to rely on them. If services included young people from the ground up they would know this. 

 

Paul and Alex discuss how they hope that projects like Youth4U - Young Inspectors will begin to change the way people think of young people in their communities for the better. 

 

Young inspectors nationwide discuss the strengths of getting together as a group and collectively voicing ideas and concerns.

 

This programme is for 13 to 19 year olds (or disabled young people up to the age of 25) who, because of their background or life experiences, haven't had the opportunity to speak out and get their views heard.

Youth4U -- Young Inspectors aims to give young people the chance to look at services available in their area and tell the people in charge of them what they think. It is being run by the Look Listen Change partnership which is made up of NCB working with the British Youth Council (BYC) and KIDS.