Live

The Youth Summit has been a great success for all those who attended, bringing together practitioners, policy makers and young people to discuss the key issues affecting the implementation of the Government’s ten-year strategy for children and young people. A wealth of ideas, debate and dialogue were generated, the most relevant of which have been captured as video interviews, podcasts, powerpoints and transcripts downloadable from this website. We will ensure it informs our work as we move forward and hope you find it valuable as well.

Throughout the Summit we were recording workshops and plenary sessions through Youth Summit Live. Below are links to some of the key posts in each theme.

Staying Safe

• Summary workshop notes from day 1: assessment of the challenges and a full list of day 1 workshop notes give an overview of the staying safe topics covered. The workshop was led by young people from Corby using an attitude finder activity
• Discussions of the harm caused Mosquito devices played a big part in the workshop, as the young people from Corby tell is in this video interview and as a workshop participant reflects in this one.
• Workshop notes from day 2: priorities for action give a sense of the issues that participants wanted to take forward.
• Darshna from Churchfield Primary School also used the blogging feature on Youth Summit Live to offer an imagined advice column to young people on issues of bullying.

Being Healthy

• The summary workshop notes from day 1: assessment of the challenges in health give an overview of where we are falling short for young people, with all the different issues identified covered in this post.
• Workshop notes from day 2: priorities for action gives a wide-ranging list of priorities from the health workshops, focussing in particular on funding and investment, better sex and relationship education, and improved training and sharing of good practise.
• A what's changed example and two videos from the Maypole centre help explore some good practise sharing
• Plus - we captured the launch of Youth Access's new resources on commissioning mental health services for young people

Enjoying and Achieving

• The workshop notes from day 1: assessment of the challenges build up a clear picture of where change is needed.
• Young people from NACRO Newcastle who led these workshops put enjoying and achievement into practise whilst at the summit - by making the most of their London visit and working hard to build a presentation overnight including their photos from around the city that fed into day 2.
• The workshop notes from day 2: priorities for action identifies a range of campaigning, spending, policy and practise changes required.
• A presentation from Actions Speak Louder highly commended project Rolling Base

Having Economic Wellbeing

• The workshop notes from day 1: assessment of the challenges set out some serious topics for discussion on day 2.
• But as the woorkshop notes from day 2: priorities for action show - the group generated practical forward planning ideas and shared examples of where action to ensure young people economic wellbeing can work.
• We also capture Anthony Lawton's three tests for good housing through Bill's blogging and a discussion has developed on this blog post about gangs placed in the economic wellbeing category.

Making a positive contribution

• The making a positive contribution workshop notes from day 1: give a wider ranging assessment of the challenges, added to by points from the young volunteers helping lead the session
• The notes from day 2 with priorities are here. The group had a particularly interesting set of discussions about compulsory volunteering.
• Mike from Yomo, watching Youth Summit Live whilst working in Ireland, shared some background resources that might be useful for organisations exploring young peoples volunteering and participation.

Plus - outside the core themes of the Youth Summit we had lots of activity on Youth Summit Live. This poem started of a wave of creativity, surfed by Barney from conference organisers NSA with this poetic input. Holly Hill proved to be star blogger, regularly dropping into the media centre to share her reflections. Plus - Tom Wylie's suggestion that there be a national Youth Board sparked a lot of discussion, including an online poll and a couple of video interviews.

Where next for Youth Summit Live?

The Youth Summit Live website will continue to be available and open for contributions for another couple of weeks. After that, we'll pause the ability to add information - but will keep it available so that practioners, policy makers and young people alike can share the collected wisdom and insights of all Youth Summit Live contributors.

The National Youth Agency, supported by Practical Participation is starting a deeper exploration of how methods like this can help us to communicate with and deepen our dialogue with young people and other NYA stakeholder alike. We'd welcome your continued comments, reflections and input.

The Youth Summit Live model

Youth Summit Live was concieved, designed, developed and run in just under a fortnight by Tim Davies of Practical Participation, working with the organising team for Youth Summit live from the National Youth Agency and Neil Stuarts Associates. It was championed and supported by Bill Badham. The Roving Reporters team made the media happen by roving through the Youth Summit gathering photos, reports and more. If you have any feedback about Youth Summit Live; you're interested in exploring how a Youth Summit Live style model could work at an event you are running; or you are interested in wider explorations of how new media can work for your organisation or project, please do contact tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk.

Dear Darshana
Life may not always go as planned one day you might be happy and another sad. One day you laugh joke and be happy and the very next you cry sulk and go through severe pain. You see I have this friend she is one of my best friends we usto have the best time togetherPlaying laughing and making up jokes. After a year of being best friends she just suddenly changes and starts acting like a big bad bully I don't know what to do. You are my last hope please tell me how to deal with this situation.

My advice

Tell your friend how you feel don't hold in your feeelings. If you do not think you can face her write her a letter as detailed as the one you have written me. If after that she still continues to do what she is doing. Then tell a teavher and see what happens. However if none of these ideas work start to take things seriously and tell the deputy head or head your self.

Todays Spiritual thought
Though there are many hurdles in lifejump over them and continue the race of life.

Do you need any help with anything Email me Darshana and I will see how I can help you.

After going to the session on gangs yesturday I just can't help but think... we are always going to have gang culture...

I personally blame the media for letting gang culture get out of hand. Gangs are all about "status" Iif one gang hears about another being more violent or whatever they will compete... Its in human nature to. This just makes other gangs copy and maybe even make the crime worse.

If the culture was not published so muhc maybe gang violence would calm down abit? I'm not sure...

But what I'm trying to say is that lowering gang culture will not work by enforcement or punsihment. Meerly support to the young people involved in these gangs. If the support was there the gangs may subconciously turn their anger into competing with other gangs by their sucess. Therefore giving the people in teh agngs and escape from the violence.

Putting youth workers in a room with gangs will nto work either. It needs to be one on one. It is obvious the young people in agngs ahve some issue with confidence or motivation otherwise they wouldnt be involved in the gang in the first place.

Anyway.. Rant over...

Til next time :)