Information about the services offered by the Youth Participation Team.
An advocate is not part of social services, but will ensure that a young person’s voice is heard and acted upon by decision-makers with choices that affect their lives.
If a young person is unhappy about a decision that has been made about their care, our advocacy service can help make a complaint.
For more information go to the Youth Advocacy Project website.
Independent Visitors are volunteers who befriend and support children in care. They are specially selected and trained so that they are safe and appropriate for young people. They make a commitment for two years minimum and will visit their young person once every two weeks and take part in activities like day outings.
Creating opportunities for all young people who have been in care to be involved in influencing, shaping, designing and contributing to the development of services and programmes for young people.
This includes Children in Care Council, Younger Children in Care Council, Care Leavers Forum and training and accrediting care experienced young people to take part in recruitment, training and interviewing of new social workers.
For more details send an email to careleaversforum@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
At the Youth Council, we ensure that young people are able to get their views recognised on serious issues that affect them.
This includes running campaigns and being represented in the UK Youth Parliament and on local authority boards and committees, such as the Youth Cross Party Working Group and Children and Young People’s Skills Committee.
Brighton & Hove Youth Council represents young people in the city.