Getting involved

What's in this topic?

• Care ambassadors - raising awareness of careers in social care to young people
• Register to vote in the next general election
• Volunteering - useful links to find out more about volunteering opportunities for YOU! Including www.junction49.com Junction 49 is a social networking web site specifically designed for young people aged 16-25 who want to make a difference by volunteering.
• Duke of Edinburgh's Award - The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is a programme of activities aimed at young people between the ages of 14 and 25.
• Shadow- annual night time orienteering event.
• Your Representatives - MYP's, Citizenship Day, Countywide / District Youth Assemblies and more...

Useful Links

www.mansfield.gov.uk/youthmayor
Mansfield District Council is the first local authority in the East Midlands to have a Directly Elected Youth Mayor. On these pages, you'll find out more about Scott Beasley and his Deputy, Holly Papper including their blog.

www.rights4me.org   
This is the website of the Office of the Children's Rights Director for England (OCRD). The Children's Rights Director is Roger Morgan. With his team Roger spends lots of time listening to what children and young people who live away from home have to say about how they are looked after. So, if you are living in a children's home, family centre, boarding school, residential special school, further education college, with foster carers, are adopted, getting any sort of help from social services or a care leaver… then this is the place to find out about your rights and a way for you to be heard.

www.theyworkforyou.com
Enter your postcode and find information about your local MP.  You can also email you MP, receive messages from your MP and read and comment on current debates in the Commons and at Westminster Hall.

www.bigvote.org.uk
This is the main site for Local Democracy Week 2008.  It includes "I'm A Councillor, Get Me Out Of Here!" an event taking place from 6th - 17th October.  The aim of the event is to get young people and their local councillors talking.  On this site you can ask your local councillors questions, get involved with live online chat sessions between young people and councillors and finally you can vote for your favourite councillor.

Judge for yourself

Watch the DVD to try out the work of a Probation Officer, using case studies -interview the offenders, recommend a sentence and then see the case reviewed to see if you have made a difference to the persons life

Judge for yourself video

Your Youth Service

Find your nearest youth club