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Involving children and young people in your work

Welcome to the Children and Young People Participation zone!

In Nottinghamshire we value the contribution children and young people can make to the design, development, delivery and evaluation of our services.

In both the City and the County we have developed and adopted Strategies across Children and Young Peoples services for the Participation of Children and Young People. These set out our shared vision and expectations for Children and Young Peoples services. We aim to work together to achieve this. We know that in order to do so, we need to share good practice and work together to support organisations to develop.

Through our work across the partnership with children and young people over recent years we have learnt a great deal and developed a range of tools, strategies and policies to support effective participation. This zone is all about sharing those things with you.

Across the Partnership, we have also been involved in regional and national developments around children and young people’s participation and that material is here to share with you too.

Please use any of the materials and information on this zone and amend them to suit your own organisation.

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Participation in Nottinghamshire

What’s going on across the Nottinghamshire County and City.

• Nottinghamshire County Participation Strategy (PDF)
• Nottingham City Participation Strategy (PDF)

Participating in school life

• Extended services cluster co-ordinator
• Citizenship co-ordinators in County schools

Connexions : Involve

Guidelines and documents developed by Connexions Involve – a national group of participation specialists coordinated by the NACP. These guidelines are designed to help you develop your own policies and procedures around participation for your organisation.

• Communications statement
• Framework for involving children and young people in procurement and commissioning
• Standards and guidelines for the involvement of young people
• Employment of young people
• Young people volunteering
• Incentives and rewards policy

These PDF documents have been developed by the National Association for Connexions Partners (NACP). For more information, visit their website: www.nacp.co.uk

Connexions Nottinghamshire

Policies, plans and different ways to support active participation in an organisation. Developed, tried and tested by Connexions Nottinghamshire and young people.

• Involving young people plan 2007-8 (PDF)
• Participation Policy (PDF)
• Incentives and rewards policy (PDF)

Areas of active involvement

• List of work areas
• District Youth Assemblies

Examples of participation

• Case studies and examples of good practice
• Quotes from young people
• The Trumpet newsletter (PDF 336KB)
  Selection of stories celebrating children and young people’s participation, put together by the training sub-group of the Children and Young People’s Partnership’s Participation Strategy Group. Includes stories shared by children, young people and staff across the county.

Training for partners

• The Training Group
• Good practice (to follow)
• Future dates (to follow)

Contacts

• District Youth Assembly
• Citizenship co-ordinators in County schools
  

Useful links

Some websites which will help you develop children and young people’s participation.

• General
• Children's Rights
• Research
• Young People
• Children and Young People with Additional Needs
• Schools