North Yorkshire's Young Inspectors programme will be providing the council with feedback on how their services work for young people over the coming weeks.
Young inspectors are young people who inspect services delivered to children and young people, providing advice and recommendations on how those services can improve, they highlight issues affecting young people offering the services an insight in to how their services are perceived and where they might need to make alterations.
James Koppert, is a youth voice and participation officer at North Yorkshire County Council, he says that youth loneliness has become a big issue in North Yorkshire during the pandemic. Some of the feedback they have had has been around how been important it's been for the council to keep providing opportunities for social activity during the lockdown periods.
As the Lockdown restrictions are expected to ease in the coming weeks James says they are hoping to get the county council's Young Inspectors back in action to ensure the councils services are delivering for younger people.
The program aims to improve the way the council's services interact with young people through a scheme which sees groups of youngsters provide the authority with what they describe as 'brutally honest feedback'.
They use a range of different methods to do this, including interviewing staff, speaking to the young people using the services, and investigating processes or websites to see if they are ‘young person friendly. Once inspection work is complete, a report is produced and presented to the managers of the service inspected, with suggestions on how things can be improved.
Inspections are mostly carried out in school holidays, James Koppert explains how the young inspectors scheme works.
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