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Youth Combined Authority

Members of the Metro Mayor's Youth Impact group pictured with the Mayor

Your city region needs you!

In 2022, the Mayor Steve Rotheram, established the Liverpool City Region’s first ever Youth Combined Authority (YCA).

Since then its members have been meeting online in small groups to discuss key issues affecting the Liverpool City Region. They’ve also been meeting with other young people from across the city region and feeding their views back to the Combined Authority, in order to influence its policies and decisions from a youth perspective.

Some of the places on the Youth Combined Authority are currently vacant so if you’d like to be part of this influential group of young people, then we want to hear from you!  If you live in Halton, Knowsley, Sefton or St Helens, and are aged between 13 and 18 (or 13 and 25 if you have special educational needs and or a disability), then please contact [email protected] for more information.

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What are the benefits?

There are lots of benefits to being a member of the Liverpool City Region Youth Combined Authority.

Some of the most important are:

  • You get to have your say over the big decisions that will shape the future of our area
  • Our group is youth-led, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to shape how the group works and the issues it focuses on. If you’re part of a youth group or association already, it provides a platform to highlight some of the work you’ve been doing to a bigger audience
  • It gives you lots of opportunities to develop and enhance key life and job skills like communication, understanding people, problem solving, to name but a few.
  • The Liverpool City Region Youth Combined Authority forms part of the National Youth Combined Authority (NYCA), meaning you’ll have the chance to meet and work with young people from across England
  • You get the chance to make new friends and meet people with similar interests to you
  • Being a member of the group will enhance your CV

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