Your Voice

May – Sept 2025

Your Voice 
Survey – 
Summer 
Term 2025

Two areas needed the most improvement if you had received support for bullying:

1. ‘Being fear free when reporting bullying’
2. ‘Aftercare’ ‘ie. Did anyone check in on you after you reported the bullying?’.  

This was followed by young people reporting ‘Being listened to and taken seriously’ as the next area needing improvement.

• Supplied 1-1 staff and young people with challenging bullying workshop information and antibullying services, wellbeing resources, Welsh Government consultation information and raised awareness of Welsh Government Challenging Bullying: Rights, Respect, Equality resources. 
  
  
• In May, Bridgend Youth Council hosted a wellbeing event in collaboration with Bridgend Youth Support.
  
  
• Developed a comprehensive code of conduct across Youth Services outlining our zero tolerance policy for bullying where Bridgend Youth Support stated:
  • "We will not tolerate any form of bullying in our youth clubs or affiliate youth organisations (BYC) and as such will pass on any information regarding occurrences of bullying to school, parents and guardians and manage as per our Safeguarding Policy"
    
    
• Developed a Linktree containing antibullying services and emotional health support and resources for young people to access across Bridgend Youth Support. Please see below.  

Currently sharing these findings within Youth Support Services. 

Ongoing

May – Sept 2025

Your Voice 
Survey – 
Summer 
Term 2025

Three areas equally needed improvement:

1. ‘Availability of support’ ‘ i.e. were you aware of who and how to access support for bullying?’
   
   
2. Access to follow on support (i.e. Were you offered other support for emotional health needs/e.g. self esteem/confidence building/ healthy relationships?)’
   
   
3. ‘Effectiveness of support’ (i.e. Did the support make a positive difference to the bullying?)’.  

• Raised awareness of our Linktree containing antibullying services and emotional health support and resources for young people to access across Bridgend Youth Support. Please see below. 
  
  
• Supplied 1-1 staff and young people with challenging bullying workshop information and antibullying services, wellbeing resources, Welsh Government consultation information and raised awareness of Welsh Government Challenging Bullying: Rights, Respect, Equality resources.

Currently sharing these findings within Youth Support Services. 

Ongoing

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

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.

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

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).

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).

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

Ongoing