In West Sussex, the county council's youth participation team is trying to ensure more young people from the area contribute their views by creating an online youth panel in addition to its existing youth forums. The youth e-panel allows teenagers to take part in surveys and consultations and have a say on the services available to young people and the wider community. Young people just have to register through the website www.westsussex.gov.uk/youthepanel in order to take part.
Sophie Bowler, 18, from Crawley, West Sussex, is among the 350 young people who have already signed up to the panel. She used to sit on the council's youth opportunity fund panel and was encouraged by West Sussex's youth participation co-ordinator Lara Pearce to join the e-panel. Sophie says: "The e-panel benefits young people because it shows them why having a voice is important and shows them how to use that voice."
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