The benefits of listening to children and young people are widely acknowledged but taking their involvement to the next step can be hard. How do you involve them in your organisation's decision-making at all levels? What involvement is appropriate? This section of Participation Works provides a starting point to fully understanding governance and how you can make it work for your organisation.
Policy Context
Adults and children and young people can struggle at times to fully understand governance, what it means and how to apply it to the everyday running of an organisation. Governance can mean different things to different people. For some it is how an organisation makes its decisions, for others it is ensuring that an organisation has policies and procedures that set out how it should operate. In reality, both are two sides of the same coin, as governance represents the processes by which an organisation makes it decisions that set out how it operates.
Youth At The Table
Programme giving children and young people the right skills and knowledge to be effective members when involved in decision making and organisational governance.
Do Youth Speak Trustee?
A 2 day Accredited training programme for young people aged 16-25 that introduces a young person to the role of trusteeship, as well as enhancing existing trustees understanding of how they can effectively and confidently speak with purpose, and understand their role within an organisation.
Trust Youth
Trust Youth is for children and young people – letting them know in their own words what they need to know to be a trustee; and for adults and organisations – letting them know children and young people’s ideas on the best way to get and support them as trustees.
Young People On NCB's Board Of Management: An Evaluation Of The First Three Years
Evaluation of inclusion of four members of Young NCB on the NCB board of management. Published 2006.
Governance How to Guide
This How To guide aims to assist organisations that are seeking to involve children and young people in their governance structures
Young People & Governance
This report details the findings of two online surveys carried out by the British Youth Council (BYC) in March and April 2009.
Whose board? Whose agenda?
A briefing from the Voluntary Arts Network (VAN) on how to include disabled and deaf people on your board, management committee or advisory group. Published Set 2007.
