In Youth Matters: Next Steps, the Government stresses the need for service providers to ensure their suitability for disabled young people and to engage actively with them to meet their needs.
Sunderland's Youth Development Group has been working on this since April 2003, when it became aware of a number of concerns raised by disabled young people across the city.
The council's youth inclusion coordinator and its participation team realised a forum was needed for disabled young people, to enable their voices to feed into decision-making.
The solution
The first step was to approach youth inclusion projects across the city to gather disabled young people willing to act as advocates for their peers. Within a month, 10 young people aged 13 to 25 had been brought together.
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