Cumbria

[JamieLeather]

Why does Cumbria not have a UKYP?

[Paul]

Why does Cumbria not have a UKYP?

Call your education authority, if they decide not to play ball and join in UKYP can't force them. (but recent government guidelines on youth involvement suggest the involvement of UKYP to councils)

[Rebecca Jayne]

I honestly don't know! I would run for it! I thought it was all kept a bit quiet, I had never heard of Youth Parliamet and MYP other than online. No help from the community, eh?

[soph41190]

Maybe its the health and safety risk posed by Earthquakes ;).

[liberati]

Or perhaps the danger posed by nuclear waste?

[Rebecca Jayne]

If your still interested, get in touch with Connexions Cumbria. They will help, I'm sure.:)

[M-lo]

UKYP is the UK Youth Parliament, not the UK Young Peopl Working With the Permission of their Local Authorities Parliament.

If you want to have a UKYP representative in your area, organise it yourself- find like-minded people, organise elections and away you go.

The main difficulty with this will be money, but if you apply to your local Youth Oportunity Fund they should give you enough to run a few loal campaigns and get transport to and from UKYP events.

In fact, you don't really need money to do a campaign or be a succesful MYP- it helps, but I was running a regional campaign up here in the West Midlands all last year without any real budget. All the money we got was raised by ourselves, and most of that is still waiting to be used.

To be honest, I'd say that, despite the difficulties of doing it this way, it's better- as something run by young people, it is actually more youth led and with young people at heart.

I find that, when you bring youth workers etc. into the equation, the whole system slows down with consent forms and risk assessment forms and youth worker led meetings that sometimes none of the MYPs really understand or agree with, so that in the end what could have been a fantastic event and brilliantly successful campaign spends 6 months organising a rather ineffective event that half a dozen people turn up to and that doesn't make a bit of change.

That said, it does help to have support from people with experience.