Local Democracy Month event – watch online

A question time event broadcast live this week as part of Local Democracy Month in Shropshire can be viewed online. 

Shropshire Members of Youth Parliament (MYPs), with support from Shropshire Council’s customer insight team, have organised three fun question time events for young people across the county. 

Visit www.ustream.tv/user/ShropshireCouncil to watch this week’s event which took place at Sir John Talbot’s School, Whitchurch, yesterday (Thursday 6 October 2011). 

Further question time evenings are taking place at Shirehall’s Council Chamber, Shrewsbury, on Wednesday 12 October 2011 and Ludlow College, on Thursday 20 October 2011.  All three events are being held from 5.30pm to 9pm. 

Young people aged between 11 and 18 years old are invited to come along to the events for the chance to put their questions to a panel of councillors, council officers, MPs and service providers in Shropshire.  The panels will be chaired by MYPs. 

Before the panel sits down to take questions, young people also have the opportunity to vote on topical issues and take part in smaller discussions. 

Questions can be on any topic which affects young people, from job opportunities and transport, to smoking, drugs, and alcohol.

This is the second year that Shropshire Council has extended the international Local Democracy Week (Monday 10 October to Sunday 16 October 2011) event in the county to include the whole of the month, following its success in 2010. 

The initiative in Shropshire aims to help more young people get involved in local decision-making, including offering opportunities to find out more about the council, what it does and how it works with its partners. 

Please see our previous story on Local Democracy Month for further details –http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/2011/09/local-democracy-month-in-shropshire/