Sefton Young Advisors - Sorting out Section 30's

Sefton Young Advisors have been tackling the issue of Section 30's. Leading on this project is Kim Cooper who specialises in community safety and crime. Kim designed a questionnaire and collected over 200 responses in the ward she currently lives and works in.

Kim found that 70% of the young people said that Section 30s actually made them feel less safe and the other 30% didn't know what one was. Following the research, Kim and the Sefton Young Advisor team pulled together an event, attended by all the local decision makers who lead on Section 30s and other community safety initiatives. Here Kim and the team presented their results to the delegates and gave them chance to discuss and debate in groups how they could work together to ensure younger and older people could feel safer on the streets

The event was a big success and lead to further work for the Young Advisors. The Young Advisors are now sitting on a number of panels within Sefton influencing the way Section 30s are to be implemented and how other community safety solutions could be informed by the innovative engagement of young people

The Sefton team are now planning a feedback event to the young people they had previously consulted. This will involve letting them know how they got on with the decision makers event and also informing them about the steps they are now going to take for improvements. Well done Sefton for great piece of work, keep it up!