BY HANNAH GRAHAM

The votes have been counted, checked and verified for this year’s UK Youth Parliament election in Dorset.

The new MYPs – the faces of Dorset’s future that will lead DYCE through what looks to be an eventful year - have been announced. During the results evening, I spoke to the relatives of the young people standing this year and I was overwhelmed by the immense sense of pride they held for their children; it was amazing to see the support they had.

The two MYPs are Lucy Breakwell from St. Osmund’s, whose manifesto was to raise awareness of young people with invisible disabilities, and Luke Evans from Budmouth, whose goal is to create a resource to aid young people with job applications and writing a CV.

Both of these manifestos are extremely important and will be taken on by DYC throughout the year.

The two deputies who will assist them with their manifestos are Sophie Trott from Thomas Hardye, whose manifesto is to campaign for a curriculum that provides young people with the skills they need for life after education, and Amy Kenderdine from IPACA, whose goal is to raise awareness of discrimination against LGBT young people in schools.

These issues are very important and DYCE will be assisting the elected candidates in any way they can in order for them to make the most of their manifestos.

It will run workshops and create online resources available to all and, as well as this, there will be many events and opportunities over the next year for the young people of Dorset to get involved in to become a part of Dorset’s future.