Your Voice
We value your opinions, especially when ensuring the services we offer meet your needs.
In the Make your Mark Ballot 2024 you told us that Health and Wellbeing and Education and Learning were the two topics most important to you.
Since 2024, our surveys on Emotional Health and Anti-bullying have been developed through collaboration with Bridgend Youth Council, the Young People’s Rights and Participation team and Bridgend Youth Service.
We have also developed an evolving ‘You Said, We Did’ in response to young people’s feedback, to shape our Youth Support Service and better meet your needs.
Your Voice – Education and Learning Survey
This term we are seeking youth voice input on the needs of Education and Learning in the county borough of Bridgend.
We have collaborated with Bridgend Youth Council again and created a survey to find out how we can further shape our youth support services to meet your needs.
This is an anonymous, voluntary survey.
We will use the data from the survey to inform services which will also be published on our Your Voice webpage. All use of data is anonymised. You can discontinue the survey at any point.
We look forward to hearing your views!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions:
Email Address: youthsupport@bridgend.gov.uk
You Said, We Did
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Date |
Source |
You Said |
We Did |
Status |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that friends and family make you feel most happy” |
Set up emotional health workshops to involve families. |
Ongoing |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that bullying contributed to you feeling the most unhappy” |
Designed our next countywide survey to evaluate what works well, and how we can further challenge bullying. |
New survey being launched in May 2025. |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you currently access support from parents the most” |
Set up working group to develop resources to be used by parents to reinforce interventions offered by our staff. |
Ongoing |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you would access support if it was available to you” |
Further promoting our support services across schools and the community settings. We have designed: A support Linktree to create a wider awareness of emotional health services in the area. Created an open access drop-in in our Evergreen Youth Hub. Delivering workshops to be accesses direct in our youth centres. Use our mobile youth bus to visit schools to promote services during your breaktimes. |
Ongoing (check out our socials to see when sessions and support are available). |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you’d like to receive support most in person and you were least likely to want support in a group” |
Realigned our funding to employ additional youth workers to offer face-to-face support Further promoting our support services across schools and the community with youth support presence in schools and with outreach in the community. Set up a working group with our Youth Council to explore peer-to-peer support. |
Ongoing (Check out our socials to see when sessions and support are available). |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that the fear of being judged was the main thing that would stop you from getting support” |
We are further promoting our support services across community with youth support presence with outreach in the community breaking down the worry and fear of being judged. Tasked our Young Editors to develop posters to promote support services including our counselling service. Redeveloped our chatbot that can be used to speak directly to a youth worker any weekday between 10am and 5pm
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Ongoing
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