Examination of Witnesses (Questions 938-939)
THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2003
MS NATALIE
STUART, MS
ANNA EAGLE,
MR JAY
BAILEY, MS
GEMMA MINTY,
MS RACHAEL
WARD AND
MR SCOTT
WILLIAMS
Chairman
938. Can I welcome our second group of witnesses.
Thank you for being willing to come before the Committee. You
have a hard act to follow, I have to say, but you have seen the
general direction in which we have been going. Can I ask each
of you to briefly introduce yourselves, starting with you, Ms
Minty.
(Ms Minty) I am Gemma Minty; I am 16
years old. Basically I am here today to tell you about the issues
surrounding sex. I am part of the Wigan Borough-wide Youth Council
which deals with a whole range of issues.
(Mr Williams) I am Scott Williams and I am part of
Wigan Borough-wide Youth Council which is made up of representatives
from all over Wigan borough of townships and action groups and
I am obviously here to tell you anything you would like to know.
(Ms Ward) I am Rachael Ward and I am part of Sex Talkers,
which is a peer education group in Wigan borough.
(Mr Bailey) I am Jay Bailey and I am part of a young
lesbian gay and bi-sexual project across Wigan.
(Ms Stuart) I am Natalie Stuart; I am 18 and am from
Swindon and have been on the young mums-to-be course.
(Ms Eagle) My name is Anna Eagle; I am 17 and I was
on the young mums-to-be course as well.
939. Can I begin by speaking to the two of you
from Swindon. Obviously I have a little idea of what you have
done because of the evidence we have and Julia Drown has told
us a little about your project. Can you tell us a little about
how your mums-to-be course works, how it operates and the way
it has helped you in the situation you have been in.
(Ms Eagle) When you go there, you are all the same
age, so people are not looking up at you or looking down at you
and you can go there and talk about how you feel.
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