Issue - meetings

Steph Burwitz (Senior Project Worker)                                   6:50PM

The Committee received feedback from Steph Burwitz (Senior Support Worker with the Children & Young People's Participation Service) on a project that had taken place over the summer.

The project had engaged young people to find out what they liked and disliked about their local play equipment and open spaces. Five young people attended the meeting to give their feedback. They comments included the following:

·        New play equipment was needed.

·        Existing equipment was in a poor state of repair.

·        More facilities needed for older children.

·        They felt that babies and toddlers got priority.

·        Disliked adult abuse of play space (smoking, discarded needles, discarded alcohol bottles and cans, dog faeces and adults taking over play spaces).

The Committee thanked the young people for their comments and invited them, with the help of Steph Burwitz, to collate comments and to contact their local Ward Councillors if they had specific concerns.

Councillor Austin stated that the Community Services Scrutiny Committee was considering play equipment and that more consultation with young people was needed.