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Food Safety Week 7 - 11 June 2010

To mark the start of Food Safety Week, Hull City Council’s Environmental Health team are reminding young people in Hull about the importance of good food hygiene in the home. This is particularly important during the summer months, when levels of food poisoning soar.

If you would like some great ideas on keeping healthy while eating your food ... Fill out the quiz and return it to us at cms@hullcc.gov.uk ... we have some book tokens up for grabs!!

Noise Action Week

Every year Hull City Council responds to noise complaints. The main complaints were loud music, barking dogs, behavioural noise and DIY noise.

Emma Goodman, principal environmental health officer, said: "We've been working with children from year 6 in Hull's primary school to help them to understand about noise nuisance and how it effects their health. As part of this we ran a competition which asked the children to design a poster which will be part of Noise Action Week in Hull.

"Lydia of Alderman Cogan C.E Primary School won the competition. Lydia’s poster showed a typical scenario of a neighbour dispute due to loud music being played at night and keeping their neighbour awake, which we thought captured the spirit of the action week really well.

"It's important for people, no matter how old they are to be mindful about the amount of noise they create. Sometimes people aren't aware of the amount of noise they are making or how much of a disturbance it creates and how it effects the health of their community. Once we've explained the situation to them it is usually resolved easily. It's unfortunate that in a minority of cases that people don't cooperate which can result in the council taking legal action."

My Place in Hull update

Hull City Council was unsuccessful in their first bid to the Big Lottery for a brand new young people’s building on the old LA’s Night Club site in the city centre. The Council has put in a second bid and should hear back soon so watch this space for more news.

 If you want to find out more about My Place please email Hullyouthcouncil@hullcc.gov.uk or call (01482) 585297.

We need your help!

We need as many people in Hull as possible to support a bid to bring the 2018 World Cup to Hull. 

You can do your bit by visiting the England 2018 bid website and following the instructions to show your support for Hull’s bid.

MCAT- get the facts

You might have heard about a substance called Meow or MCAT. It's also known as Mephedrone and is a really powerful stimulant and it can be very dangerous. Click here to find out the facts about MCAT.

Newland St John Primary School

Are you due to be on a full or part time training course in September or October 2010? Did you attend Newland St John C of E Primary School? If so, you may be able to claim a cash award. Download the poster to find out more.

Aiming High newsletter

The Aiming High newsletter is for disabled young people and their families. Click here to download the latest edition.

Get clued up on Enviro-crime

Coming soon to Clued Up a great new game all about Enviro crime. 

Dog fouling, graffiti, dumping rubbish and damaging property can spoil our communities, parks and the spaces that we should be able to enjoy. Clued up on Enviro crime is coming soon… watch this space to find out how you can become an Enviro crime buster and help make your community a nicer place to live.

Success for cycling scheme

Hull's cycling scheme in East Park has won the first BBC Power of Sport award in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire for opening up opportunities for disabled children and young people to get cycling.

Specially adapted cycles are provided for children and young people with disabilities who may never have had the chance to ride a bike before.

The project, run by Simon Berry from KIDS, on behalf of Hull City Council, was developed after pupils from Frederick Holmes Special School told of the need for a cycling scheme for disabled children and young people in the city.

10th Hull Young People’s Parliament

On Tuesday 20th October, 178 children and young people from all over the city came together at The Guildhall for the tenth Hull Young People's Parliament.  The children and young people discussed education in Hull. You can find out more in the report below. 

Emergency  contraception clinics

If you want to find out about clinics across Hull offering an emergency contraception service follow this link to the Teenage pregnancy page.

Hull Youth Enterprise to represent Yorkshire in national competition

Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership has been chosen to represent Yorkshire in the Enterprising Britain Competition. Enterprising Britain is a nation-wide competition to find the UK’s most enterprising place.

The presentation team including Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Amanda Hartley an ex pupil of Sydney Smith School, secured first place in the heats and Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership will now go forward to put Hull on the map at the national finals.

Frederick Holmes students aiming high

Find out what students from Frederick Holmes Special School have been doing to help promote the need for better changing places in Hull.

“We are 4 students from Frederick Holmes Special School, Shane, April, Alice and Abigail, and we have been working with Hull City Council to help improve changing places in Hull City Centre.

We all attended a youth parliament meeting that was about health and mentioned that one of the most important health things for us was better changing rooms/toilets in the City Centre. We created a power point presentation to show what a changing room needs so that it can be accessible and inclusive.

We are involved as part of the Aiming High group and we have now created a questionnaire to help us get the correct location in the City Centre for a changing room.

The two places for this year have been highlighted as Princes Quay for a brand new, one fully equipped, or for St Stephens to be made bigger allowing it to become a fully equipped changing room.” 

One of the students now sits on a group; making decisions alongside other members of the group, about where and how the Aiming High agenda funding is spent, to improve disability services.

If you want to send us your ideas about changing places, download and complete the questionnaire. Please return it to: Simon Berry, KIDS – IVS project, Chanterlands Avenue, Hull, HU5 4DJ

The group has also been involved in a project about ‘Inclusive Cycling’ in East Park. Find out more in the newsletter below.

NEW Children and Young People’s Disability Information Pack and DVD

Ryan Snitch from Malet Lambert and Sean Kemp from Northcott, were the lucky winners of VIP invitations to the launch of the brand new Children and Young People’s Disability Information Pack and DVD at the Hull Christmas Lights Switch On.

The new Information Pack and DVD is full of useful information about services for disabled children and young people in Hull. The DVD has been made especially for children and young people who have disabilities or additional needs and shows lots of fun, exciting things to do in Hull. So if you have a disability or maybe some additional needs why not ring (01482) 318318 and ask for your FREE copy or email fis@hullcc.gov.uk.

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