Opportunities for Youth – National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services
Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services sets out Ireland’s key policy ambitions for youth work and related services.
Children and Young People as Research Collaborators in a Large-scale Migration Research Project
In this paper we detail and contextualise the collaborative participatory research process developed throughout the IMMERSE research project which maps the integration of migrant children in education in Europe.
Promoting Children’s Participation in a Participatory Design Process in a Rural School: A new role needed?
In Brazil, Education of Rural Areas is a model which started with social movements and became a public policy with the aim of improving participation of people of rural areas in making decisions about the model of their education. Schools in that context need to improve access to scientific and technological knowledge, but ensuring that previous values and knowledge of the students about agroecology and sustainability are considered.
Evidence-based Approaches to Policy-making and Service Delivery for Children and Young People in Ireland
This chapter discusses current practice and opportunities to strengthen evidence-based approaches to policymaking and service delivery for children and young people in Ireland. It analyses capacity among government departments and agencies to collect, utilise and share evidence that is disaggregated by age and other identity factors and coordinate research within the framework of the Children and Young People (CYP) Indicator Set, with a focus on mapping the needs of vulnerable groups of children and young people. It also discusses the collection of evidence through involving children, young people, and civil society in policymaking, as well as the development of regulatory impact assessments to anticipate child and youth outcomes ex ante.
The Agenda for Children’s Services: Reflective Questions for HSE Senior Managers
The aim of The Agenda is to assist policy-makers, managers and front-line practitioners to engage in reflective practice.
The Representation of Children’s Participation in Guidelines for Planning and Designing Public Playspaces: A Scoping Review with “Best Fit” Framework Synthesis
In this scoping review, we aim to analyze guidelines and identify strategies for supporting children’s participation rights when planning public playspaces.
Children’s Opportunities for Play in the Built Environment: A Scoping Review
Designing opportunities for play in the built environment is crucial to support children’s health and development. A growing research focus on child-friendly environments has evidenced a shift toward creating spaces and buildings that take children’s needs seriously and work with children as capable experts and active collaborators. Yet, limited attention has focused on how different scholars conceptualise and operationalise research on understanding and designing opportunities for play in the built environment. This paper reports on the findings of a scoping review of peer-reviewed empirical literature (51 publications) from 1994 to 2019.
The Relation Between Children’s Participation in Their Daily Life and Their Subjective Well-Being
Children’s well-being and children’s right to participation are important concepts for those striving to improve children’s lives. Recent years have brought growing conceptual recognition that children’s rights, particularly children’s right to participation, are part of their well-being. However, these two concepts have been addressed separately, especially in research, as they are seen as two different goals of children’s lives.
Children’s Participation in Child Protection—How do Practitioners Understand Children’s Participation in Practice?
Children’s participation is essential to achieve good outcomes for children involved in child protection systems. Despite this, research has consistently found children report low levels of participation, are poorly consulted and feel inadequately involved in decisions about their lives. To explore how practitioners understand children’s participation, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted with statutory child protection practitioners in Australia.