Young Inspectors to evaluate services

Thursday 30 July 2009

Sutton is one of 18 areas inviting young people to inspect and evaluate the services they use in order to help improve them, through a new scheme launched earlier this month.

Under the Youth4U Young Inspectors scheme, managed by the Look Listen Change Consortium, Jigsaw4u will be working with the council to recruit, train and support young people to investigate and assess local services and recommend improvements. Young inspectors will also be given the chance to achieve accredited qualifications through the programme.

Eny Osung, local support worker for Youth4U, who is training five young people aged 16 to 18, said: "The aim of this initiative is for young people to influence services. They are being empowered to visit them and give recommendations."

There will be 12 inspections a year. For each one, young people will receive two days of training before carrying out an inspection and putting together their report. The first inspection will be of Jigsaw4u. Copies will be sent to the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the inspected organisations.

For more information, contact Kerryanne Russell on 020 7843 6085 or krussell@ncb.org.uk.

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