Participation - paper based
Welcome to the Participation section.
- Review of Children and Young People’s Participation in the Care Planning Process 26/06/06 [NI]
The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People has recently completed a review of looked after children and young people’s involvement in care planning; highlighting the need for these children and young people to have more say in decisions regarding their care.
- RIGHTS - Carnegie Trust Report : Empowering young people 20/02/08 [E/NI/S/W]
This report is about the Carnegie UK Trust’s youth programme - The Carnegie Young People Initiative (CYPI), which ran between 1996 and 2007.
- RIGHTS - Children's participation and the promotion of their rights: Journal Article [E/NI/S/W]
Questions whether children and young people can be said to have participated in processes relating to the introduction of government policy with respect to children and young people and the significance that has been attached to their views. Argues that greater attention should be focused on the legal rights that children have under the European Convention on Human Rights rather than on the more ephemeral rights conferred by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- RIGHTS - Implementation handbook for the convention on the rights of the child: 2007 [E/NI/S/W]
Practical tool for those involved in implementing the principles and provisions of the Convention. Under each article of the Convention, it records and analyses the interpretation by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the internationally-elected body of independent experts established to monitor progress worldwide. Analyses relevant provisions in other international instruments, comments from other UN bodies and global conferences, and illustrative examples of implementation from countries around the world. For each article there is an implementation checklist asking key questions on progress. This revised edition adds analysis of the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child up to 2007.
- Secondary School Councils Toolkit[E/NI/S/W]
A training pack for those who want to set up and run pupil-led school and class councils in secondary schools. It is aimed at both teachers and pupils and contains all the materials needed for training by both.
- Seen and heard 2006 – A hand book for Young People [E/NI/S/W]
This report looks back over the Seen and Heard Project 2006. It highlights different projects and different methods of communication to get your point of view across.
- Seen and Heard? Consulting and involving young people within the public sector[NI]
The aim of this publication is to reflect on what has been learnt in the area of participation and to translate this into a format which is accessible beyond the youth work sector.
- SEN Toolkit 2001 [E/NI/S/W]
The SEN Toolkit, intended mainly for schools and LEAs, contains practical advice on how to implement the SEN Code Practice. Section 4 of the Toolkit deals with enabling pupil participation.
- Short Guide to Section 75 of the NI Act 1998 [NI]
A short guide to the public sector statutory duties to promote equality of opportunities and good relations.
- Social Care & Participation of Children & Young People 22/02/06 [E/NI/S/W]
A guide from SCIE focuses on how managers and practitioners in social care can initiate and sustain the participation of children and young people in developing their services.
