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Cabinet:
 
a) 
endorsed this report; and
b) 
recommended that Full Council
 
·        
asks officers to share the general feedback received
from young people during the Task & Finish Group’s work
with local authorities and educational providers so they can take
this into account when providing their services.

 
·        
asks officers to write to village colleges in South
Cambridgeshire to offer the opportunity to present to them on the
elections process and ask if we can further support their
curriculum.

 
·        
notes the successful youth engagement programme
currently run by the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service and
supports the provision of appropriate coaching to enable officers
in other priority areas such as housing and local business to find
ways of similarly involving young people.
 
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Asks officers to investigate the feasibility of
holding, within the next 12 months, a scheduled meeting of the
Climate and Environment Advisory Committee at a local educational
establishment, to which students and other young people should be
invited.
 
·        
Asks The Leader to write a letter to the Mayor of
the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority highlighting
the feedback from young people on the limitations of public
transport and urging him to take into account their views when
developing proposals for bus franchising.
 
·        
invites young people, including from the groups
approached as part of the Task & Finish exercise (Appendix
1), to contribute evidence to officers involved in developing a
new Equality Policy embracing generational differences.
 
 
·        
encourages all Members of South Cambridgeshire
District Council to commit to engaging with young people and
representative organisations in their wards by establishing regular
visits to local schools, colleges, youth clubs and other locations
as appropriate.