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This section provides information about resources and toolkits to help professionals working with children and young people involve them in decision-making processes.

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Breathing Fire into Participation [W]
By Trudy Aspinwall and Cath Larkins for The Children and Young People’s Assembly for Wales (Funky Dragon) and Welsh Assembly Government, 2002This Funky Dragon Guide to Participation is intended to help develop the effective participation of children and young people in decision-making in Wales.
Children and Decision Making, Toolbox and Training Pack [W]
Written by Nigel Thomas, Julia Phillipson, Clare O'Kane and Elaine Davies at the University of Swansea, 1999This is a guidance and training pack was developed to assist practitioners and managers to involve looked after children in decision-making that affects them.
Children and Participation: Research, Monitoring and Evaluation with Children and Young People
This Save the Children UK document is about participatory information gathering in the process of research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people.
Children as partners in planning: a training resource to support consultation with children
Written by Lina Fajerman, Michael Jarrett & Faye Sutton, this training resource to support consultation with children is aimed at childcare workers in a range of settings and for all professionals associated with Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.
Children's Participation: From Tokenism to Citizenship
Written by Roger Hart, this Innocenti Essay (4), looks at young people's participation and notes that it occurs to different degrees around the world.
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation
A practical manual written by David Driskell, on how to conceptualise, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process.
Get Global!
This is a teachers resource pack produced by Save the Children, Oxfam, Actionaid, Christian Aid and CAFOD for active global citizenship.
Hear By Right: Setting Standards For the Active Involvement of Young People in Democracy
Using case studies this book encourages councils to look seriously at how they currently involve and engage young people in local democracy and where and how improvements could be made.
Involving young people
Written by Tesse Akpeki, this guide offers practical advice for voluntary organisations that are serious about their commitment to involving young people in decision-making.
Never Too Young: How Young Children Can Take Responsibility and Make Decisions
A practical resource that shows how young children can participate, make decisions and take responsibility for their actions.
Participation Spice it Up! Practical tools for engaging children and young people in planning and consultations [W]
By Carol Shephard, Dynamix Ltd and Phil Treseder, Save the Children WalesThis publication is based on the work of Dynamix, the workers co-operative based in Swansea which works to promote youth participation across the UK.
Primary School Councils Toolkit
A training pack for those who want to set up, develop or run pupil-led school and class councils in primary schools.
Promoting Children’s Participation in Democratic Decision-Making
In this Innocenti Insight (6), Gerison Lansdown examines the meaning of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says that children are entitled to participate in the decisions that affect them.
Secondary School Councils Toolkit
A training pack for those who want to set up and run pupil-led school and class councils in secondary schools.
Serious Fun: Games for 10 – 14s [W]
By Dynamix, SwanseaThis book provides a variety of games that can be played with 10 to 14 year olds.
Serious Fun: Games for 4 – 9s [W]
By Dynamix, SwanseaThis book provides a variety of games that can be played with 4 to 9 year olds.
The Good Council Guide - how to bring your secondary school council to life, Save the Children, 2004 [E/W]
This guide produced by Save the Children is a sister publication to their guide to school councils in primary schools published in 2001.
Total Respect: Ensuring Children’s Rights and Participation in Care
A training pack designed to ensure that children's and young people’s right to participate in all decisions affecting them is fully respected in the looked after system - by foster carers, social workers, residential care staff, managers and elected members.
Voices and Choices: Young People Participating in Inspections
An evaluation of an innovative approach to obtaining the views of children and young people during inspections of local councils’ children’s services.
National Standards for Children and Young People’s Participation for Wales
The Children and Young People's Participation Consortium for Wales, the Participation Unit and the Welsh Assembly Government's Participation Project have developed a set of National Standards for participation that are relevant for all organisations who work with or have an impact on children and young people.
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