Standards help you drive up quality and performance measured against public expections. Building in young people's participation to your organisation requires a strategic plan - your organisation will probably have to change structures and process to allow children and young people's voice and influence to have some real effect. But where to start and what to do? And how can you involve children and young people in the process early on?
Tools
Hear by Right is a tried and tested standards framework for organizational change that embeds youth participation. Hear by Right is used by hundreds of diverse organisations, from local authorities and national government departments, to small third sector organisations.
The Hear by Right shared learning website includes more details about the tool, briefings for specific circumstances, and an extensive database of shared learning from users of Hear by Right.
There are a number of resources available from the downloads page on the Hear by Right site.
For people working with children and young people in Wales there is a National Participation Standard and Self-Assessment Pack.
