Results from all Schools - 1998

442 young people from 17 Lewisham schools answered the Lewisham Listens to Young People questionnaire. 345 were Year 6 (mostly) pupils from primary schools and 97 were Year 7 pupils from 4 secondary schools.
Answers are shown in percentages of children responding.

3. Sex

5. Which area do you live in?

Bar graph Boys 54% Girls 46%

Pie chart

 

6. Do you think the following services are provided by the Council?

Bar chart

 

7. What do you think is the most important service the Council provides?

Bar chart

 

8. Do you know what a councillor is?

9. Would you like to find out more about what the council and councillors do?

Bar chart Yes 52%  No 6% Not Sure 42%

Yes 71% N0 29%

 

10. Do you think children should be more involved in the decisions the Council makes?

11. What decisions could children be involved in?

 

12. Would you like to use e-mail to ask the Council questions about what it does?

13. What other ways could the Council ask children's views?

Yes 71%  No 26%

Bar chart

 

14. Lewisham Council intends to set up some web pages where Primary School children can discuss issues that are important to them.     What would you like to discuss?

Bar chart of issues children would like to discuss

 

15. What changes would you like the Council to make in your area?

 

16. Do you think your area is safe?

17. What do you think you could do to help the Council do its job?

Yes 31%  No 65%

Bar chart of how children can help the council

 

18. What could the Council do to make Lewisham a better place for children to live in?

Pie chart of ways to make Lewisham a better place for children

 

19. Do you think the Council does a good job?

Yes 37% No 25% Don't know 38%

 

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