Creating a Right Space
December 10th, 2009 | Published in Children and Young People's Participation, News | 1 Comment
A new project in partnership between Practical Participation, Investing in Children, Durham and the Centre for Social Action, De Montfort University.
In times of political, social and economic change how do we hold onto the progress that has been made to promote social justice for young people? How do we deepen the practice of listening to and involving young people in dialogue that leads to change? As organisational structures shift and practitioners are working in more challenging environments – how can we create space for children, young people, practitioners and managers to reflect and learn together?
These are some of the questions we want to explore through a new project in 2010 in partnership with Investing in Children and the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University – and involving a wider community of practice of people involved in work with children and young people.
The project will have its own online presence at http://www.rightspace.org.uk soon, but to get discussions started, take a look at the two video clips below from Liam Cairns and Bill Badham, and use the comments below to share your reflections on the issues discussed.
We look forward to more dialogue with you in the RightSpace in 2010.
Liam Cairns discussing Children’s Human rights
Bill Badham on key themes for RightSpace
February 20th, 2010 at 9:44 am (#)
Thank you all for this>to get things moving on the right direction we all need to include each and everyone involved.The first step would to involve children and young people as they know best and only they
can be in a better position to come up with what will best work for them.