School Council Network Focusing On Digital Safety

Ministers and schoolhouse representatives are group to meet later for nan first School Council Network successful Jersey of nan caller term.

The meetings, which return spot up to six times a year, let superior and secondary schoolhouse councils to style argumentation straight pinch government.

The Department for Children, Young People, Education and Skills (CYPES) said nan opening arena of nan word would attraction connected information and integer wellbeing.

Education and Lifelong Learning Minister Rob Ward congratulated each nan students elected to their schoolhouse councils, calling it "a large work but besides a awesome opportunity".

Ward, who is group to be nan arena alongside Minister for Children and Families Richard Vibert and Assistant Minister for Children and Families Malcom Ferey, said: "I'm excited to spot nan ideas and activity you'll bring, and I look guardant to moving pinch you done nan School Council Network."

Vibert said nan web had grown into a "powerful, student-led forum".

"I'm proud to support a web that puts young voices astatine nan bosom of decision-making, and I look guardant to proceeding much from them arsenic they attraction connected safety, which is 1 of our priorities successful nan Children, Young People and Families Plan," he added.

Students will besides reappraisal Jersey's caller Play Plan, ensuring it reflects their existent needs and experiences.

CYPES said students past word helped redesign nan Millennium Town Park playground, tested and tasted basking schoolhouse meals, and submitted hundreds of questions to ministers.