At a fully attended council meeting in Bristol, two teenagers - Max Wellingham and David Levene - stood up to let the Lord Mayor, city councillors, chief officers and a packed public gallery know just what sort of future they and their peers want to see. They were representing the views of more than 300 young people aged 13 to 17, who attended Hear by Right - Your Say, a one-day conference held in December last year. It gave young people in Bristol the chance to have their say on key issues such as crime and education.
Beyond expectations
Max Wellingham is a 16-year-old member of the City of Bristol Young People's Forum and helped to organise the conference. He joined the forum three years ago after a friend's mum saw a leaflet and suggested he might go along. "The conference was amazing," he says. "I was really surprised at the scale of it all. It was organised by the forum with support from the council's young people's services."
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