Active Involvement Involvement and engagement and participation describes the inclusion of children and young people in some form of decision making.
It goes beyond consultation, where views are sought, and strives to include children and young people in decisions about ….
Individual choices for school, free time, health and so on:
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Group decisions in youth clubs, schools, residential homes etc.
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Service and policy development including type of activity, timings of a service, decoration of buildings
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Organisational governance and change through staff recruitment, evaluation of services, steering groups.
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Political participation through local & national democracy, parliamentary activity.
In Solihull, the Children & Young People’s Trust is committed to active involvement and has developed a set of standards for that it promoted to all partners.
Please click here to view the AI Standards
Locally, children and young people have been actively involved in many ways for quite a while. Here are some examples:
Disabled young person raises money for charity
Unaccompanied assylum seeker talks about how looked after support helped him
Young Person from Voice of the Future talks about what they like about their participation group
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