The toolkit profiles a range of ways to engage pupils and support schools in understanding young people’s views from their diverse school communities and includes short video footage as well as helpful tips, considerations and templates.
The toolkit profiles a range of ways to engage pupils and support schools in understanding young people’s views from their diverse school communities and includes short video footage as well as helpful tips, considerations and templates.
This Child-Friendly Justice (CFJ) Assessment Tool aims to support member states in meeting the standards for child-friendly justice in all situations in which children are likely to be brought into contact with the justice system, for whatever reason and in whatever capacity – as offenders, victims, witnesses or parties – in judicial proceedings (criminal, civil or administrative law) or non- judicial proceedings. The Assessment Tool is intended to assist member states in best implementing the Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Child-friendly Justice (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Guidelines’) and in best self-assessing their progress in doing so.
As a child, you may not be able to make decisions about your health on your own. But you have the right to be involved in those decisions just as other children have the right to be involved in decisions that concern their own health.
The Guide provides information and advice, primarily for healthcare professionals, about how to involve children in decision-making processes regarding their health. It starts by presenting the theoretical and legal context and progresses to describe important components of the decision-making process, helping health professionals to understand their role in supporting children, families, and other professionals to enact this in practice. Key concepts of consent, assent, and ‘best interests’ are discussed, as well as common healthcare situations where participation in decision-making may sometimes be perceived as more challenging. Examples and links to good practice are provided throughout.
The Framework provides a single point of access to new and existing resources and training on children’s rights and taking a children’s human rights approach.
This toolkit is for teachers and schools. It explains why a child rights approach to participation is important and how to facilitate it in schools.
The Right Way is a project from SYP to support and challenge decision makers in Scotland to meaningfully engage young people in their work. How to do CRWIAs The Right Way is a young people’s guide to help decision makers create ambitious CRWIAs that champion and advance young people’s rights in Scotland.
This toolkit is designed to support National Societies to enhance their ability to engage children in safe and meaningful ways to improve the relevance, quality, and effectiveness of programming.
This review was commissioned by the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DECDIY) to provide an up-to-date understanding of what children and young people who have experienced poverty have been asked about and consulted on, and to identify key methodological and ethical issues. The aim of the review is to provide practical guidance for researchers and practitioners who are contemplating involving children and young people living in poverty in a research project or a consultation. The involvement of children and young people in any research or consultation should be placed within the context of an international rights-based framework. The adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child specifies the right of all children to express an opinion on matters and decisions that affect them directly and to have that opinion taken into account. In the Irish context, there is now increasing emphasis on eliciting the views and perspectives of children and young people in matters that relate to them, and this is reflected in policy and practice whereby government and agencies of the state are increasingly advocating and drawing on children young people’s voice in research and consultation processes. More recently, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has expressed serious concern about the large number of children in Ireland that are living in poverty, food insecurity and homelessness, and about the children of ethnic minority groups who do not have access to child benefit payments due to the habitual residence condition. In a recent report the Committee urged the Irish state to ensure that measures to combat poverty comply with a child rights-based approach and include a particular focus on children from disadvantaged families, especially children of single parents, refugee children and children of ethnic minority groups (UNCRC, 2023). This report contributes to supporting this task and includes a methodological and ethical review of how to capture the voices of vulnerable children, with a particular focus on experiences of children and young people living in poverty. The practical guidance offered in this report can inform future research initiatives and consultations that aim to better understand the lived experience and views of children and young people experiencing poverty.