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	You can join the PWNE today. The benefits of membership are as follows: We publish fortnightly ebulletins to keep you up to date with the latest news, events, policy and opportunities around children and young people’s participation in decision making. We also profile a ‘Spotlight PWNE Member’ which you can feature in. The main pages of the gateway also contain up to date news stories, events and high quality resources. Once you join the national network you are also automatically joined to your relevant regional network. More details about the regions can be found here. The network runs regional and national networking events on a range of issues relevant to practitioners. Members can also search our network database to get in contact with and share knowledge with other practitioners and you can also submit blogs on the key issues related to working in participation. The joining process will require you to fill in an on-line form with information about your project. Those of you who are already PWNE members will be required to update your previous information. Everyone will be required to agree to the PWNE Terms and Conditions and Equal Opportunities statement. There are now two different types of PWNE Membership – individual and project membership. Individual membership is for someone who would like to take their PWNE membership with them when they move into another job. They also might be the only Participation Worker in their project or organisation. Project membership is for someone in a project or organisation where more than one person would like to be a member and is seen as ‘shared membership’. Previous PWNE members will have to choose between the two options above when updating their details New members, when you first click on ‘Join now’ you will be immediately directed to the on-line registration page where you will be asked to submit your details. We authorise new members twice a day so you should hear from us shortly with your username and password. Once authorised by the Participation Works team members will have access to the PWNE Member Directories, the PWNE Map and be able to search for fellow members across the country. You might be looking for someone who’s developed a particular project in a particular setting, to seek their advice and share ideas.

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.