Dear Alison O'Sullivan,
I
have copied below an email sent to Baroness kennedy of the shaws QC
today. I will write again when I hear back from the Baroness or secure
another venue.
Dear Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC,
I
met with you at the offices of the National Association of Young People
In Care a number of times in 1990, just after I did a speech at a Legal
500 event in London, as a Development Officer for NAYPIC.
Over
the past few years as you might have seen NAYPIC and a raid at my
London home hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons and that has
partly led to the CSA inquiry being set up.
When
NAYPIC ceased to be funded in 1993 by the DoH, I had already resigned
from my 1987, five years employed post as London Development Officer, as
I found that I needed to expand NAYPIC structurally to a National level
and therefore could only do that at a voluntary management level, from
which I was then to give a public speech to 365 members at conference,
to be successfully voted in as elected chair of the national
organisation.
I
wrote the manifesto 'Time for Change' as a development officer
advocating a National structure and then as chair I wrote 'How to set up
a NAYPIC local group' and organised a weekend conference at Skegness
for 450 young people across the country to elect the National Executive
Committee for which I again did a speech and became elected chair of the
NEC.
I believed then as I still do now that empowerment is not and never will be rights.
I believed then as I still do now that children by the very nature of them, do not have money.
I
believe then as I still do now that there is no central agency that
expresses the views and opinions of young people through an elected and
democratic process and NAYPIC was the last organisation that was
effectively voicing some of youths most troubling experiences for
society to become aware of the issues and hopefully work with NAYPIC to
do something about it all.
Did it take one dead monster for us as a society to see the tip of an iceberg or had we already known?
Well that as it is, is neither here nor there!
That
is not to say I don't care but what I am saying as I have always said,
is without hearing what NAYPIC says, NAYPIC being by nature children in
care who have seen the worst, how do we know what to do?
We speak from experience, we don't speak from psychological or sociological points of view, we speak because we know!
The
reason why I am writing to you is to ask for your assistance in
ascertaining a room at the House big enough for about 660 young people
from the UK that will be two persons a borough.
I
will then approach another 90's person I used to know very well and
last I saw him he was having pizza in my house as we were working late
on a presentation for NAYPIC DoH funding the next day, Bob Lewis, Social
Service Director of Stockport and head of the ADSS Association of
Directors of Social Services. He kindly endorsed our conferences
throughout all social services making it so much easier for us to get
the representatives and their carers to our conferences.
I will try my best to get his equivalent now to do the same.
I
will then email all the districts after sorting out the venue,
workshops, speakers, elections, lunch, accommodation, event insurance,
t-shirts, baseball caps, membership cards and various travel
arrangements, so that the event runs smoothly for all the members and
carers to enjoy.
The
aim of the conference will be to prevent other non established
organisations from setting up non democratic, unconstitutional and
without structure fledgling organisations at this crucial time and to
also crucially advocate the creation of a Youth Economy by statutory
right, to be eventually voted on in both the House and the other house,
so that young people who represent youth people by election do not waste
precious time constantly asking for funding, often funding that can be
withdrawn by interested parties in the continued abuse of youths rights.
We have freedom of association but where is the association? A pound a
head for the 12 million children in this country would be a small but
good start to a budget by right!
Babies,
children and young people have no right to a voice, a youth economy, a
budget by law that they administer, will bring about the change this
society and then the world needs.
Kind Regards
Mary Moss
