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Much can be said about an organisation by its definition of ‘young’. While 18 to 25 years is widely accepted as the default,18 to 30 pushes the box closer towards young adults, grown up and settled down. However, in local government, a ‘young councillor’ is considered to be anyone under the age of 35. So why is it that young people are largely absent or in a significant minority in local government?
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UK government is known as one of the most centralised in the world. One way which the current government claimed to be giving power back to local government was through the ‘General Power of Competence’. This was a long awaited bit of legislation (first contained in the 1983 Labour Party Manifesto) which means councils can now do anything that isn’t forbidden (whereas before they had to be given permission through an Act of Parliament). Unfortunately, it’s not been as big a change as local government would have hoped.
Samir Jeraj - Freelance Journalist 