Blacktown City Council - Media Release - Youth Get A Chance To Address Council

6 February 2020

Blacktown City Council is calling on young people to raise

their concerns at a Youth Forum later this month.

The second annual Blacktown City Council Youth Forum on 

Friday 21 February will give young people aged between 16 

and 21 the opportunity to help shape Council’s youth policies.

More than 100 students representing 12 Blacktown schools 

attended last year’s Youth Forum.

After identifying the issues that most concerned them, 

students took part in a ‘youth’ council meeting where they 

were given the opportunity to put those issues to the Mayor 

and Council Executive.

Young people who are attending school, university, or TAFE 

are invited to register their interest in attending the forum.

Blacktown City Mayor Tony Bleasdale OAM said: “Last year 

we had a chance to listen first hand to what young people in 

our City regarded as the most important issues concerning 

them.

“This year we want to see how they would like to work with 

Council to address the issues that are most important to 

them and we will again be holding a ‘youth’ council meeting 

in the Council Chambers.”

The Youth Forum takes place on Friday 21 February in the 

Nirimba Room at Council’s Administrative Centre in 

Blacktown.

For more information visit council’s 

website: www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Events-and-

activities/Youth-Forum-2020

Details:

Date: Friday 21 February

Time: 9 am – 2.30 pm

Venue: Nirimba Room, Council Administrative Centre, 62 

Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown.

Contact: forums@blacktown.nsw.gov.au or call 9839 6914

During the forum participants will be given a 

chance to have their voices heard in a formal 

‘youth’ council meeting in the Blacktown City 

Council Chambers.


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