Vox pop
VoxPop 2008
Other Questions
We did not have time to ask all of the questions, here is a list of the other questions asked by Young People.
Transport
Why can you not buy a return on the Arriva 158 anymore?
What do you think the possibility of having the half fare age limit raised to 18 is?
Can the council approach the govt or other providers for subsidy to help bus companies provide half-fare travel for under 18s?
What would you do if the bus companies refused to change their unsafe or dirty buses?
Could the council do anything to help under 18s transport costs?
Can the Council liaise between bus companies and CYCLe?
Can the council approach the government or providers for a subsidy to allow all under 18s to get half fares on buses?
Can we do something about dirty buses, and also get half fares on them for under 18’s?
Are there any schemes in other countries that provide discount bus services for under 18’s that have been implemented successfully?
Why aren’t school coaches inspected more often?
What would you do to improve the quality of school buses?
What would you intend to do if the bus companies refused to change their buses or things inside their buses e.g. faulty chairs?
Can we get ID cards to entitle us to cheaper bus fairs?
Could the Council give guidelines about fare prices?
How will you overcome pollution from busses?
Would you be willing to upgrade bus facilities?
Crime and Safety
What training do the police have in order to work with young people?
Where are the police, shouldn’t they be linked to the Youth Council?
What us being done about bullying out of schools? You can’t stop bullying outside of schools, but it happens so how is it being dealt with, and what is being done?
Facilities
How do you effectively consult with young people on developing facilities?
Re: Youth Centres in Pubs.
In NWLYC we did a district wide consultation regarding what young people wanted to see in NWL. A cinema and youth centre came out top however a ‘youth pub’ which functions exactly the same but did not serve alcohol was suggested and when we looked into it, it proved to be an extremely popular idea.
I used to live in a pub, we ran a youth club on a Sunday which made us a lot of money and everyone enjoyed it, even the adults talking to the young people. Before this happened we had a barrel of beer stolen by the young people but with doing the since starting the youth club there have been no more incidents.
Like Dean’s point earlier, I live in Measham and there is absolutely nothing for young people to do which therefore leads to increasing incidents of vandalism. There isn’t even a youth club. There used to be one in a grotty place called ‘The Picture Bar’ but that was closed years ago. Recently my mum’s boyfriend wrote a letter to either the Parish Council or the owners of the ‘bar’ asking why it was closed and they replied with a flimsy excuse. Surely having facilities for young people would reduce anti-social behaviour which would benefit the village in the long run, in money situations or others.
Please contact me as me and a lot of my friends in Measham feel very strongly about this issue.
What happened to the improvements of parks and facilities because it has just stopped in the middle of improvements?
Why are most youth clubs the same? Because not everyone’s the same we all like to do different things.
How do you take into account how different area need different facilities, because they might already have something that needs upkeep?
Can you complete one project at a time rather than trying to do too many and not completing any?
Are you improving the existing facilities before making new ones?
Can County Council improve the existing facilities before making new ones?
How can County Council improve on the access for the events or facilitiers?
To what extent can the local council/government help to fund existing and new facilities?
What plans does the council have to further the range of existing facilities?
Other
How do you take into account the needs of different ethnicities?
Does LCC have any say on the distribution guidelines for EMA within Leicestershire?
Why is it that as a private school, we are not allowed to have our recycling collected free of charge?
What can we do to change how young people are perceived?
