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In this room you can access some of the latest thinking about children and young people’s participation. Across the UK, there is a strong interest from academics and others in children and young people as public actors, and how they make their voices heard. There is a growing body of research around this theme, which is generating new ideas and thinking.

Resources

Child And Youth Participation Resource Guide
UNICEF annotated bibliography of resources around children and young peoples participation. Published as a pdf in 2006.

Children, Young People and Social Inclusion
Book which asks critically examines the concepts of participation and social inclusion and their links with children and childhoods. Published 2006.

Listening to Children: Environmental Perspectives and the School Curriculum
This study concerns how children perceive, and act within, their local environment. It draws on educational, geographical and environmental psychology perspectives.

Mapping Children and Young People's Participation in England
The National Youth Agency (NYA) and the British Youth Council (BYC) surveyed statutory and voluntary sector organisations in England between November 2003 and January 2004, in order to establish a picture of the levels and ways in which they involve children and young people up to 19 in public decision-making.

National Evaluation of Children's Fund
The Children’s Fund was set up in 2000, in part as a catalyst to move forward inter-agency cooperation and child and family-led preventative services in local authorities. It is, therefore, part of a long-term strategy aimed at strengthening communities and families as places where children and young people can develop as healthy, responsible and engaged citizens.

PALS Research - Users & Staff Perspectives
The NHS Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) was set up to help patients and the public obtain ‘on the spot’ information and advice, and deal with any issues or concerns about their health care. This study examines to what extent PALS were inclusive of children, young people and parents.

Participation and Working with Boys and Young Men Briefing
The purpose of this briefing is to explore how the growing participation ‘agenda’ involves and impacts upon working with boys and young men.

The True Cost of Public Participation
There is a gap between the rhetoric underpinning public participation and the hard evidence of the financial costs of undertaking such working. This gap creates problems, both in terms of planning and also in terms of making the case for participation.

The Value Added By Community Involvement in Governance
This project deals with the experience of a range of participants in Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) in England, the value they place on the process of community involvement in partnership working, the costs of that engagement and the barriers encountered.

Your Place or Mine
A Research Study Exploring Young People’s Participation in Community Planning

Building a Culture of Participation
Research and handbook focused on how to change organisation to better listen to children and young people so that their views bring about change.

Links

Children's Research Centre
Research centre which empowers children and young people to be active researchers of their own lives.

Participation Learning Network
A 'space' for critical thinking and innovation concerning children's and young people's participation.

Researching Children
Working community of academics which work together and meet regularly to invetigate how to research children.

The Centre For The Study Of Childhood And Youth
Multi-disciplinary Research Centre at Sheffield University committed to contributing to the improvement of children and young people’s lives.

Carnegie UK Trust research have published the ...

Children’s Research Highlights Poverty As Key Barrier To Educational Achievement

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Participation Works for the Statutory Sector

Participation Works is the key hub for voluntary and community organisations wanting to build their capacity to involve young people in decision making and influencing change in their organisations.

But Participation Works is not only providing support for the voluntary and community sector. Across our online gateway you will find a wealth of resources, news stories and training and development opportunities for statutory sector organisations.

This short tour will give you an overview of some of the things you will find.

Click next to proceed through the tour. You can exit the tour at any time.

About Participation - the rooms

The 'About Participation' section of the gateway is made up of thematic 'rooms' - each packed with useful information and links to resources on that theme.

To make it easy for you to locate resources which were developed in the statutory sector, or which apply across the statutory sector (for example, government policies) we have used this icon:

Resources which may have been developed in the voluntary sector, or which may be particularly relevant to both the statutory and voluntary sector are marked with this icon:

Putting Participation Into Context: Rights

Young people have right to be involved in decisions that affect them. In the rights section you can find out about these rights, and what they mean for government and statutory sector organisations.

Putting Participation Into Context: Policy

International agreement, UK law and government policy places requirements on statutory sector bodies to involve young people in decision making. In the policy section you can explore the legislative and policy foundations for youth participation.

Getting Started: Training Resources

Whether you are just getting started with young people’s participation, or you have established participation work that you want to build upon – good quality training and training resources can play an important role.

The training room includes details of training packages that are available and links to training providers and consultants who can support practical skills building and organisational change for the participation of children and young people.

Getting Started: Training

Participation Works also provides a wide range of training courses directly and through our partner organisations.

Training is free to voluntary sector organisations, and is available to statutory sector organisations for £85 per session.

Hear by Right workshops support organisations to explore the current level of young people’s participation in their work, and to create a sustainable plan for improving youth participation. Hear by Right also explores the importance of participation leading to real change for young people, and includes a focus on practical methods for recording and measuring change.

Ready Steady Change uses an interactive set of training tools to build participants skills and knowledge in increasing children and young people’s participation in decision-making. It approaches participation from a children’s rights framework.

Building a Culture of Participation explores how an organisation’s culture can be established and embedded to support children and young people’s active and meaningful participation within the organisational infrastructure.

Safeguarding in Youth Participation is a one day course that aims to provide delegates with a better insight into safeguarding issues when working with children and young people and on ways to improve and provide a safe environment for children and young people.

You can find a list of upcoming course dates and can book online through the training page.

Getting Into The Details: Resources

Participation Works have produced a wide range of practical How To Guides on participation, as well as a series of publications on young people’s rights and the state of youth participation in the UK.

All these guides are available as free downloads.

Getting Into The Details: Rooms

Participation Works thematic ‘rooms’ of content cover many of the practical issues that children’s trusts, local authorities, government departments and agencies and other statutory sector bodies will come across in building the participation of children and young people in their work.

The standards room focuses on how standards can be used to drive organisational change for young people’s participation.

The measuring change room provides practical tools for seeing what has changed as a result of young people’s involvement.

Participation online explores a range of practical methods for engaging with children and young people through the internet and multi-media methods.

Getting Into The Details: Resources Hub

The Participation Works resource hub is packed full of information and resources from Participation Works partners about how to involve children and young people.

You can search for case studies of participation projects, stories of change, examples of policy and practice, training resources and more.

Keeping Up To Date: News

The Participation Works news service includes regular updates on participation policy and practice.

You can subscribe to received news updates by e-mail and you can browse the extensive news archive to find out about the background of local and national government participation initiatives and action.

Get Networked: PWNE

The Participation Works Network for England is the place where you can find and network with other professionals working on the participation of children and young people.

Once your registration has been approved you can let others know about what you are doing through your profile, and you can search for others with interests similar to your in the Full Member Directory.

The PWNE also has regional networks which run events and convene meetings for local knowledge sharing and learning.

Get More Support: Enquiry Line

Participation Works run a telephone enquiry line set up specially to help sign post you to the information you need.

You can give the enquiry line a call to talk through your needs and to help identify the resources, training and support most relevant to you.