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A survey of 1,000 organisations revealed that nine out of 10 agreed that children and young people have the right to participate in public decision-making. However, about the same number said that senior managers do not understand the practicalities involved in achieving this.

The training materials below offer a wide collection of information, activities and sign posting for children, young people and adults seeking to make change happen. The emphasis is on respecting children and young people as people now not people-in-the-making; being clear about the changes that need to happen; and developing the skills and knowledge to help make change happen.

These training materials are not an exhaustive list, but a start to help you engage with children and young people.

Resources

Act By Right
An accredited skills workbook designed to develop young people’s knowledge and skills to take effective action and make change happen

Committed to Rights
Training materials for all those working with children and young people in the youth justice system (including in custody), to demonstrate that a rights-based approach leads to better decision and judgement making.

Confidence In Communication
Student-developed and student-led training initiative involving a series of practical modules about the barriers many young people face in connecting with decision makers.

Make It Count
Fun days for children and young people in care to equip them with skills to get involved in decision-making.

Whats So Queer
All inclusive Sexuality Diversity Training Toolkit consisting of an Educators Handbook, CD Rom with supporting materials.

Ready Steady Change
Training and tools to put children's and young people's wishes, feelings and ideas at the centre of public services.

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Groupwork Consultation And Training Ltd
Groupwork are the only organisation in the UK specialising exclusively in Social Groupwork training. They hold our own courses in Greenwich, London, but also run in-service courses all over the British Isles.

ICA UK
The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) develop, demonstrate and train people in effective approaches to facilitating participation.

NCB Consultants
National Children's Bureau training courses are designed and delivered to help practitioners and managers directly apply current legislation, policy and good practice to their own work.

NYA Consultants
The National Youth Agency's Participation Team offers training and consultancy for national and local organisations and supports children and young people to speak out on issues that concern them.

YouthForce
YouthForce is a training and recruitment consultancy specialising in the Youth Sector.

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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.