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Liverpool has just been recognised by UNICEF as a Child Friendly City. But what does that actually mean for a young person growing up here, and how do you prove a city is listening rather than just collecting accolades? In the very first episode of Mersey Views, council leader Liam Robinson and Dylan Evans sit down with two guests who put young people first every day. Ismaeel Hayter is fifteen. He runs his own window and car washing business, is taking on young "trailblazers" this summer, and works with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to break the stigma around diabetes across the city. Sue Gregory is chief executive of Everton in the Community, the charity reaching young people from a 13 million pound campus in the shadows of Goodison Park and 167 locations across the region, including its People's Place mental health hub. Along the way: how Liverpool turned its children's services from inadequate to good, why trust matters more than any badge, the case for "one front door" to youth support, and a bit of Everton banter at Andy Burnham's expense. Plus Your City, Your Questions, where residents put questions the leader hasn't seen, live and unscripted. Got a question for the leader? Submit it at liverpoolexpress.co.uk/leadership-questions. New episodes monthly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices