Wales launched the third Youth Parliament in January 2025 and Learning Disability Wales is one of the partner organisations again supporting young disabled people to have a voice.

1 January 2025 – 31 December 2026. For more information visit the Welsh Youth Parliament website.

Learning Disability Wales is proud to be working with Welsh Youth Parliament for a third term as a partner organisation. We are supporting Welsh Youth Parliament Member Tammi Tonge from Conwy to speak up at the Welsh Youth Parliament on behalf of other young disabled people in Wales. 

About the Welsh Youth Parliament

Voted for by young people

60 young people aged 11 – 18 are your Welsh Youth Parliament Members.

40 of them were elected by young people voting in the Youth Parliament election in November 2024. The remaining 20 have been elected by young people from partner organisations. Learning Disability Wales is proud to be one of these organisations.

Putting the Welsh Youth Parliament together this way makes sure there is representation from diverse groups of young people.

Run by young people

The issues that the Welsh Youth Parliament raise awareness of are chosen by young people, backed by the young people you chose to be your Welsh Youth Parliament Members.

Your Welsh Youth Parliament Members highlight and debate your issues at a national level, gathering views from other young people across the country and working with those with the power to make change.

How the Youth Parliament works

Every 2-year session of the Welsh Youth Parliament:

  • Empowers Wales’ young people to identify, raise awareness of and debate the important issues to young people.
  • Listens to young people in Wales, represent their views, and act on the issues that are important to them.
  • Works with young people in Wales, share what the Youth Parliament is doing with the issues they have raised.

Our Welsh Youth Parliament Member

Tammi Tonge

Tammi is 18 and lives in Conwy, North Wales. She is autistic and has a learning disability as well as scoliosis and a rare genetic condition. Tammi was placed in foster care as a baby and was later adopted by her foster family. She is passionate about inclusion and wants to make sure disabled young people have the same opportunities as their non-disabled peers. Tammi said, “Whatever challenges I take on, I always give 100%. It can sometimes be difficult, and I might need tasks to be simplified and explained to me in a way that I can follow and understand, but I always do my best. My goal as a Welsh Youth Parliament Member is to try and improve life experiences for all, especially disabled people. I might be small, but this doesn’t hold me back!”

More information

For more information visit the Welsh Youth Parliament website, or speak to Sam Williams at Learning Disability Wales, phone 029 2068 1160 or email samantha.williams@ldw.org.uk.