Annual Conversation
Annual Conversation April 2024
This year's Annual Conversation is taking place on Thursday 25 April 2024.
Annual Conversation 2024 has been adapted following feedback and experiences from previous years. This year we have reached out to more children and young people's groups and invited them to be part of this year's Conversation.
The evening will be split into two sections. The Pledge Working groups from 2022's Annual Conversation (Ambassadors, Councillors and Council Officers) will come together to share and celebrate their successes and achievements from the last 12 months.
The second half of the evening will be spent looking at priorities for the next 12 months and connecting people up to work together to achieve these.
What is the Annual Conversation?
The first Annual Conversation took place in November 2021 following fantastic engagement from children and young people earlier in the year during G7. The Annual Conversation is a facilitated dialogue between children and young people (aged 10 to 24 years old) and Council Leaders. Previously, The children and young people spend time training to be Ambassadors not only for their own views and ideas but the views of other children. They then talked with Leaders and worked together to agree three pledges, one for each of the three identified priorities. Leaders and Ambassadors will share the accountability to ensure that these pledges are achieved. You can read about last year's pledges here.
Themes for Annual Conversation 2024
These themes were decided by combining information from various sources from children and young people over the last 12+ months. We have identified 6 key areas of priority for children and young people. These will be the focus of the workshop sessions during the evening.
Feeling safe in our communities (particularly in the dark).
Cost of Living – free school meals in schools.
Emotional Health and Wellbeing – training for adults and young people.
Being heard, valued and taken seriously by people who are there to protect me and keep me safe.
Transition between primary school and secondary school – young people’s experience.
Smoking and Vaping – fire risk, smoke free generation, second hand smoke.
Y7 Journalists
We will be joined, as we have before, by Y7 Journalists, who will be working together with members of Youth Council Communications team to capture the event. They will be seeking to understand how we are upholding children’s rights to have their views respected and taken seriously.
Why might I want to get involved?
Children and young people:
What you have to say matters. You have the right to be heard and to be involved in decisions made about your life (UN Summary of the Rights of the Child)
Getting involved gives you power as well as being likely to improve self-confidence, wellbeing connection with other people and your community
What you have to say can influence what decisions are made about lots of areas of your life now and in the future, such as education, housing, jobs and the environment
Adults to support and encourage children and young people to take part:
To enable children and young people to have the best life chances, to learn skills, develop their knowledge and feel heard and involved
To learn from children, understand their perspectives and why they feel that way
To support children and young people to realise their values, passion and voice matters
Adults have a duty to listen to children, take their views seriously and involve them in decision making
Our data protection and confidentiality statement
How will you protect my information?
Your data will be stored securely and will only be accessible by members of Together for Families. Your consent for your data to be used in the evaluation will be assumed when you complete Registration.
Who am I giving my information to?
The evaluation is being carried out by Together for Families. You can view our privacy notice at www.cornwall.gov.uk/tffprivacynotice.
How will you store my personal data?
Responses will be collected using the Let’s Talk Cornwall survey software. By completing Registration, you consent to this transfer of your information. This includes any information which may represent your personal data. All the information you share with Together for Families will be stored safely for the duration of the evaluation. It will be destroyed one year after it has finished.
Let’s Talk Cornwall is the system used to collate the data and create reports from it. You can view the privacy statement on the Let’s Talk Cornwall website.
Celebrations
We know there are some incredible things happening across the county, but there is also a lot we don't know about. Please share things you would like to celebrate here, it could be something you've done individually, something you've done as part of a group or something you're wanting to celebrate that has happened in your community.
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