"I find adult speakers a bit boring. I'm good at my literacies, but I'mnot that good at my vocabulary when they speak. For example, they saythings like, 'this is unscrupulous'. I don't know what that means. I donow, obviously," says 11-year-old Jaspreet Mahal.
She's running up the stairs at Ealing Town Hall, eager to get to thenext session of the council's Powerful Voices conference. Now in itsthird year, the conference ensures that disabled and able-bodiedchildren participate in the services that affect them. Not so differentto what other councils across the UK are doing. But what is unusual isthat children and young people give all the presentations. So ChildrenNow joined them to see how it works.
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