00:00I'm so, so proud of my son. Every day, he just, he's just come such a long way.
00:07Hello, my name's Angela Candola and I am the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottingham Shire.
00:14I'm here at the National Justice Museum, part of the Youth Voice Listening Project.
00:18My name is Tawanda Jamare. I'm a dad to Denzel Jamare, who is a student at Buoyal Academy.
00:36I would say I've seen a great improvement from Denzel. His behavior, his involvement with things that are happening in the community.
00:47I think his awareness is improved and, you know, there's a difference in the conversations we have when it comes to things like drug abuse and street crime.
01:00You know, it just gives me the pride to say, okay, fine. If he's got these ears and eyes to see what's happening within the community, then probably the future is good for him.
01:13I'm Paula, Liddermore, Carden's mum. He's, like, growing confidence and putting himself out there and learning himself as a person and who he wants to be and how he wants to be.
01:27It's amazing to see and it just puts a smile on my face every day. I'm so proud of him.
01:33Every week I was getting at least a couple of phone calls from his teachers saying how much he was getting involved and just how nice it was to see everyone come out of the shelves and get involved.
01:44So it's really been a great experience to be watching him come home and take part in it.
01:50I'm Luke Palmenter, Collective Impact Manager from the Centre for Student and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University.
01:56We knew that young people speaking to other young people would generate insights which we wouldn't have got from elsewhere.
02:02But the secondary benefit, if you like, is the impact on the young people and their leadership.
02:06We can go out and consult with young people. We can ask them what's important to them.
02:10We can ask them what's special about their community. We can ask them what we need to do differently.
02:13But that's quite a passive way of doing things. Quite often we go there and we extract that information and then we might go away and never speak to them again.
02:20With a project like this, we're able to build relationships with them. We're able to train them to become listeners themselves and be critical.
02:27And our aim really is to leave a lasting impact. And the legacy of this work is not just to lean on them to help us to understand, but also to enable them to become future leaders.
02:37The participation and the feedback we have received from the young people involved in this project has been absolutely outstanding and will contribute to creating safer streets and public spaces in Bulwell and Clifton.
