At the meeting of Bury Council’s Executive Committee on 12 September I raised the issue of how children and young people are to be involved in the decision making of the new Children’s Trust which comes into being on 1 October 2007.

The new Trust will help bring together the services provided by different agecies – e.g. council services, local health services etc – to provide a better service to children, young people and their families.

I asked the Council to look to see how better ways could be found for children and young people to have better ways to have a say about services provided for them than exist today. At present Bury has a Youth Cabinet, and each area is meant to have a Youth Forum. Personally I feel that we could do more to make sure that young people and children have a say in the local area.