Wirral youngsters urged to share their views on council spending (From Wirral Globe)
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Wirral youngsters urged to share their views on council spending
8:00am Sunday 23rd September 2012 in News
Wirral youngsters urged to share their views on council spending
WIRRAL youngsters are being urged to make their voices heard about how they think council cash should be spent.
The local authority’s ‘What Really Matters’ event, which launched earlier this month, is a chance for residents to tell council bosses what services they find important.
But despite more than 2,500 people registering their views so far, the council wants more young people to get involved.
Councillor Phil Davies, leader of Wirral Council, said: “I have been really pleased with the response rate so far but would like to encourage more young people to tell us what their priorities are.
"Everyone, whatever their age, has their own opinion about how we should target money to make Wirral a better place to live.
“We have written to every school in the borough to ask them to engage their pupils in this process and we will be taking our consultation roadshow to local youth clubs to gather as many views as possible."
"This year’s Youth Voice Conference, which will bring over 100 young people together at Wallasey Town Hall, will also be focused on the ‘What Really Matters’ consultation.
“We are really pleased to be having this input and look forward to hearing how they think that £100m worth of savings should be found.”
The ‘What Really Matters’ roadshow will be at the following locations over the next week:
Monday, September 24: Hoylake Children’s Centre, 9:30am -11am, Cherry Trees Centre, Liscard, 9am – 5:30pm and Birkenhead Market 9am – 5pm.
Tuesday, September 25: Total Fitness, Prenton, 9am -1pm and Greasby Children’s Centre, 9:30am -11am.
Wednesday, September 26: MECCA Bingo, Birkenhead, 11am – 1.30pm, West Kirby Children’s Centre, 1:30pm – 3pm and The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead, 6pm - 8pm
Thursday, September 27: Tesco Bidston, 10am – 7:30pm and ALDI Birkenhead, 10am – 7:30pm.
Friday, September 28: Pensby Children’s Centre, 9:30am – 11am and ASDA Liscard, 10am – 6.00pm.
Saturday, September 29: Morrisons West Kirby, 9.30am - 3.30pm.
Tuesday, October 2: Seacombe Children’s Centre, 9am – 11am Tesco Heswall, 10am – 7pm.
Wednesday, October 3: Ganneys Meadow Children’s Centre, 8.30am -11am.
Comments(15)
red devil
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3:08pm Sun 23 Sep 12
Positive thinker
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4:29pm Sun 23 Sep 12
many youngsters turned up to Roadshows and what they cost to set up
council officer
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5:51pm Sun 23 Sep 12
I know, we will pay a shed load of senior officers more money than most of us can dream of and ask a load of kids to give us the answers to our problems! Why don't we employ them?
I used to be proud to be a public servant but it's just so depressing.
daggers drawn
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10:55pm Sun 23 Sep 12
council officer wrote:Having visited on the website to fill the questionnaire in. I was amazed at how amateur the forms/questions are. Some of the questions ask you to vote 1,2, or 3, on e.g. shall we cut funding to others? BUT they do not say who. This theme carries on throughout the form. Its a disgrace that someone has been paid to produce this. When I saw the age group who could fill in the form it was laughable - one minute they are spending £££s on trying to get parents to send kids to school, the next letting them fill the questionnaire in, what a joke. 3,000 people out of 350,000 have been spoken to and the council say 'that's a strong response!
Tick that box!!! I know, we will pay a shed load of senior officers more money than most of us can dream of and ask a load of kids to give us the answers to our problems! Why don't we employ them? I used to be proud to be a public servant but it's just so depressing.
Talk about communication! I urge readers to log on to Wirral Council website & see for yourself!
JADEE1
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1:20am Mon 24 Sep 12
Ben Beaconsfield
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10:04am Mon 24 Sep 12
JADEE1 wrote:Just for the record, JAYDEE1, when people were asked at last May's elections, what exactly do YOU think it was they said they wanted?
if the council truly want the wirral to be a better place to live ,ask the adults ,oh silly me,!! you did at last mays, local election, ,now you totally ignore what the people say & want,!!so now your asking kids ,& you will totally ignore what they want & say,,council officers & councillors ,care about no one except them greedy bent selves,!! & the sooner the outside police force ,starts its investigations the better,then they can try there HOT AIR IDEAS,AT LIVERPOOL CROWN COURT,!!& GOOD RIDANCE,TO BAD RUBBISH,.!! BBC, BIRKENHEAD BENT COUNCIL.!!
Ben Beaconsfield
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10:09am Mon 24 Sep 12
red devil wrote:This is as insulting an ignorant generalisation as I have ever read concerning the young people of Wirral.
waste of time, what do most kids know nowadays, many have never been to school. Oh hang on, that are future labour voters there!! Silly me.
The vast majority of children DO go to school here. And in addition to learning, they work hard for their communities, no more so than in the many fund-raising charitable efforts regularly they undertake and which are reported in the Globe and elsewhere.
You should be ashamed of yourself for disparaging these youngsters, red devil.
Spiffy
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1:07pm Mon 24 Sep 12
Positive thinker
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6:43pm Mon 24 Sep 12
spamfiend
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6:33pm Wed 26 Sep 12
council officer
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10:00pm Thu 27 Sep 12
daggers drawn wrote:Given the resources that goes into the Communication Department, the quality of the consultation questionnaire is really substandard. For something that is so important it is very amateurish. The questions are not very targeted and need to have more depth. The size and cost of this department is huge given it does not actually do anything positive for the community. What is going to happen to all the staff who manage the neighbourhood funding now that there is none? The last major consultation had 70 staff working on it, so this must be the same. It just seems so pointless.
council officer wrote:Having visited on the website to fill the questionnaire in. I was amazed at how amateur the forms/questions are. Some of the questions ask you to vote 1,2, or 3, on e.g. shall we cut funding to others? BUT they do not say who. This theme carries on throughout the form. Its a disgrace that someone has been paid to produce this. When I saw the age group who could fill in the form it was laughable - one minute they are spending £££s on trying to get parents to send kids to school, the next letting them fill the questionnaire in, what a joke. 3,000 people out of 350,000 have been spoken to and the council say 'that's a strong response!
Tick that box!!! I know, we will pay a shed load of senior officers more money than most of us can dream of and ask a load of kids to give us the answers to our problems! Why don't we employ them? I used to be proud to be a public servant but it's just so depressing.
Talk about communication! I urge readers to log on to Wirral Council website & see for yourself!
JADEE1
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10:13pm Thu 27 Sep 12
Positive thinker
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7:00pm Fri 28 Sep 12
JADEE1
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10:41pm Sat 29 Sep 12
wed by dozens of prosicutions , you the public will see how bad it really is,& were all our council tax is going ,on the QT,,tip of the iceburg,!!!!,& we dont need more councillors on the wirral than there are books in the bible,,IN CASE YOU DID,NT KNOW THERE ARE 66 BOOKS IN THE BIBLE&i say that with great respect ,to our christian bible.some councillors should read it now & again,,it will do them all a world of good.!! but dont hold your breath if they do ,!!
Positive thinker says...
2:23pm Sun 23 Sep 12
load of Garbage