Derbyshire County Council's Attitude to Young People

[Pete]

I know a bit about this story as the meeting was videoed and put on YouTube and I watched most of it at the time.

The crux of the story is that at a DCC meeting, a petition against the closure of youth clubs, of 16,000+ names, submitted by 16 year old  Greg Roberts was more or less rejected out of hand by councillor Barry Lewis who said the “deceiving” petition bore “all the hallmarks of militant Labour scaremongering”

So all the time and effort spent on this petition was disregarded by this snotty councillor who also used the opportunity to slag off the local Labour Party. No mention of young people - just party politics again.

With youth unemployment at a massive level the youth get sh*t on again.

I wonder how long it will be before Lewis and his bunch of holier-than-thou followers are complaining about young folks hanging around street corners using anti-social behaviour.

What a creep.

http://bit.ly/JQNwVY

[Big Dave]

Isn't DCC's handling of that petition to be looked at by a Scrutiny Committee? Quite right too!

[Pete]

Yeah, it's all in the link. I should've mentioned it but I was so incensed I left my thinking-head off. Sorry.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, it's all in the link. I should've mentioned it but I was so incensed I left my thinking-head off. Sorry.

S'OK,  I just hope it's not a DCC whitewash.

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Big Dave]

CC - If you're so sure of your facts, why not put them on here?

[Slacker]

Under the current electoral divisions Lewis has zero chance of re-election. UnfortunTely the boundary changes give him (if selected) Ashover and Wingerworth so not so clear cut.

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Big Dave]

So you keep claiming but why in a thread about something totally different?

[chesterfieldchris]

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[therealjr]

Anyone got access to a hard copy of the DT? I'm pretty sure this is not the version of the story they printed.

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Big Dave]

Anyone got access to a hard copy of the DT? I'm pretty sure this is not the version of the story they printed.

It's not, when the DT went to print the decision to refer it to a Scrutiny Panel hadn't happened. It reads, "Members will decide tomorrow to decide whether to initiate the review, which is recomnded for approval."

Otherwise it's pretty much the same, just a change to past tense in a sentence or two.

[Pete]

Great news on the Chesterfield Post website - apparently the council have decided not to implement current plans that would have decimated the Youth Service.

Although it is not clear exactly what will happen, it's deffo going in the right direction. Fingers crossed it's not some ruse by the DCC to slide something past the electorate.

http://bit.ly/JKACtf

[Old Cruser]

Just thinking what 'I' did as a child, played in the park at the back of the house or went fishing in the Rec, went to chapel twice on Sundays, tin can lurky, hide and seek, hopscotch, spinning top, hoola hoop, snowball fights, roller skates, bike, on dark nights we played board games with friends or listened to music. Didn't have any youth clubs back then --- didn't get into trouble either!