Seventeen-year-old Katie Mobbs is an influential young women. As chair of the Kidz Board, she has a say on how the disability charity Whizz Kidz is run and gets to express her views on a range of disability policy.
She has even visited Whitehall to hammer out details of a consultation on access to schools with previous Children's Secretary Ed Balls.
"It was a privilege and an amazing experience, but we were there to do a job. Ed Balls made us at ease. Some of our members have made presentations at the House of Lords so it wasn't intimidating," says Katie.
Such boards have blossomed on both a local and national level over the past few years, helping to give young people with disabilities a greater say about the issues that affect their lives.
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