The paper questions whether existing understanding of children’s participation in early childhood education may extend beyond what is required by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The aim of this study was to document activity in statutory and non-statutory organisations that enables participation by children and young people (under the age of 18) in decision-making that affects their lives.
Toolkit for Involving Young Members in Decision-Making
Author: Sport Ireland
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) promotes the rights and welfare of children and young people under 18 years of age living in Ireland.
Children and young people’s participation in public decision-making is now firmly on international and national agendas. This article concludes the special issue on such participation, by discussing three central issues for children.
How Kerry Local Creative Youth Partnership involved children in a lunchtime and after-school garden project in a primary school.
Report on the development of a collection of good practice case studies on children and young people’s participation in decision-making.
Scholars in childhood research have been reconsidering whether the participation of children and young people in sensitive research is necessary. This paper questions whether some of these objections arise out of colonial attitudes towards childhood, young people, human rights, and research.
This study uses the Lundy Model of Participation to understand what is required if children and young people are to meaningfully participate in decisions made about their lives.
This study focuses on collective participation, which is defined as ‘the goal of improving services for everyone in the same situation’.