Youth Voices Connect Podcast Youth Voices

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The Youth Voices team spoke with Festus Akinbusoye on why he has chosen to run as a candidate in the next Police and Crime Commissioner Election for Bedfordshire, which is taking place on Thursday 6 May 2021.  

He shared with us his views on stop and search, volunteering as a special constable, and undertaking a years worth of duties in 3 months. The impact of drugs and youth violence, early intervention programmes and the power of positive thinking and most importantly how he would help to turn over the town of Bedford by creating employment opportunities for Young People in the office of the PCC.  

If elected as the next Police and Crime Commissioner, Festus has said he will:  

Invest to bring back community-based policing for both our urban and rural communities.  

Tackle drug dealing, antisocial behaviour and the causes of these crimes.  

Support law-abiding citizens' rights to a peaceful life in our county and put victims' needs first.  

Lead a multi-agency approach to early intervention and tackling re-offending.  

Lead an open and transparent policing area.  

Police and Crime Commissioners are elected to hold your police force to account for delivering the kind of policing you want to see. 

Their aim is to cut crime and to ensure your police force is effective.  PCCs bring a public voice to policing and they do this by:  

Engaging with the public and victims of crime to help set police and crime plans; 

Ensuring the police force budget is spent where it matters most; 

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Appointing, working with, and where necessary, dismissing the Chief Constable.  

Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected by the public to ensure the policing needs of your community are met as effectively as possible, and to oversee how crime is tackled in your area.  

https://www.fest4bedspcc.co.uk/about-festus #youthvoices #yourvoicematters #thetownturnover #makebedfordbetter #fest4bedspcc




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The Youth Voices team reached out to speak with Kathryn Holloway,  Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner as part of the initiative to hold 100 conversations with Bedfordshire's Afro-Caribbean community, following the Black Lives Matter protests of last year.

Following the Black Lives Matter protests last year, Kathryn set up an initiative called 100 conversations where she invited members of Bedfordshire's Black Afro Caribbean community to discuss their experience and thoughts on discrimination, and as the voice of younger people is often unheard Youth Voices contributed to these discussions and then invited Kathryn to be interviewed on the Youth Voices Connect podcast.

The role of the Police and Crime Commissioner is to be the public's voice when it comes to policing Bedfordshire, setting our priorities for the Chief Constable and Force to deliver in a strategic plan and holding the Chief Constable to account and we wanted to find out more about the role of The Police and Crime Commissioner how The PCC is responsible for directing the spending of a £100M budget supporting the Victims of Crime and increasing security through the distribution of community grants to partner agencies through the Community Safety and Victim Support funds, which included funding of the Youth Voices OutReach project.

Listen to our discussion with Kathryn, and how she has implemented some of our suggestions to help improve how Bedfordshire police its young people.

100 HOURS to enhance confidence and trust in Bedfordshire Police - Listening to our Black communities report:

"As Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, I made a commitment to reach out to the county’s Black communities in my Police and Crime Plan of May 2016.

While I have made many contacts - and built friendships as well as professional alliances - within such communities since coming into my role, the death of George Floyd made me realise that I had not succeeded in giving a voice as widely as possible to those who are not already established partners of Bedfordshire Police in respect of their experiences and attitudes towards policing.

I wanted to hear directly, in person, from as wide a sample of our Black residents as possible to learn their own suggestions of ways in which we could enhance their relationship with policing in Bedfordshire and, potentially help to do so across the police service more generally in England and Wales. This is the reason that I committed, as a key priority of my term - and time - during 2020-21, to devoting 100 Hours to produce this report in collaboration with the widest possible cross-section of Bedfordshire’s Black and Mixed Race residents.

These conversations, with individuals aged from 15 to 80, took place with me between July 2020 and the end of January 2021."

https://www.bedfordshire.pcc.police.uk/fluidcms/files/files/PUBLIC---The-100-Hours-Report---FINAL.pdf

In next week's episode, we speak with Festus Akinbusoye the candidate for the May 2021 Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner election.

#yourvoicematters #thetownturnover #makebedfordbetter #100conversations


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Bedford Open Door discussion with parents and carers.


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We hear from Lily on her experiences with counseling with an ASC and ADHD diagnosis 


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Member of Youth Parliament Voting 2021, Who will you vote for?..

Jeslyn (@rawr.c0re) is a member of the Bedford Youth Cabinet (@youth.cabinetbb), we spoke with her to find out what inspired her to run for election as the Bedford candidate for the UK Youth Parliament and how more young people in Bedford can get more involved and have their voices heard.

"The UK Youth Parliament makes sure Children and Young People across the United Kingdom have the opportunity to have their voices heard and to make a difference. 

Every Local Authority in the United Kingdom has elected representatives and Bedford Borough is looking for our next Member of Youth Parliament. 19 Young People (candidates) have put themselves forward and it is down to you to vote for the person you think has the right skills, knowledge and experience to put Bedford Borough on the map.

Each candidate has written a short paragraph about why they feel they are the best person for the job; have a read and vote for the person you would like to be our next Member of Youth Parliament. You can only vote once; so choose wisely.

Read all the candidate manifesto's here .. and cast your vote!!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BBMYP2021_VOTE

VOTING RULES:

-You must be aged between 11-18 to vote in these elections.

-You must live, work or study within Bedford Borough.

If you have any questions about the United Kingdom Youth Parliament, the Engagement and Development Team or these elections please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team on voice@bedford.gov.uk"

#StayConnected #YouthVoices #YourVoiceMatters #Vote #UKYouthParliament 


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