Two Young People have been selected to represent the Isles of Scilly in the national initiative, the U.K. Youth Parliament, which is due to sit biannually. It was decided that two representatives would be needed due to the diversity of situations between mainland and island education. Charlie Bennett from Bryher has been selected for the candidate from the Islands; she is currently in year 10 in the Isles of Scilly Secondary School on St. Marys. Charlie took part in an election where three candidates stood and each had to make a speech on why the job should go to them, during an assembly. Rosimund Taylor, also from Bryher, has been selected to represent the views of Islanders currently partaking in Further and Higher Education on the mainland. Rosi is currently studying at Adams School on the mainland and faces the difficult task of representing all the views from the large number of colleges occupied by students from the Islands. Rosimund won the postal ballot election, for which there was only two candidates. The first sitting of the UKYP was on the 24th of February 2001.
