WHY AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOR ORGANISATIONS WORKING WITH LESBIAN AND GAY YOUTH?
“The purpose of youth work is to redress all forms of inequality and to ensure equality of opportunity for all young people to fulfil their potential as empowered individuals and members of groups and communities and to support young people during the transition to adulthood…Youth work offers young people opportunities which are…designed to promote equality of opportunity – through the challenging of oppressions such as racism and sexism and all those which spring from differences of culture, race, language, sexual identity, gender, disability, age, religion and class; and – through the celebration of diversity and strengths which arise from those differences.” National Youth Agency Statement of Purpose. 1. There are already electoral colleges for organisations who work with black young people, disabled young people and girls and young women. Their existance acknowledges the need for electoral colleges which represent the needs of groups of young people who are usually marginalised
