Children and Young People

Young People’s Involvement

Every Child Matters: Change for Children has highlighted the importance of involving children and young people and listening and acting on their views when developing and delivering services. 

If you are a young person and want to know how to get your voice heard, click here

• Young London Matters and Young People's Involvement
• Current work

Young London Matters provides opportunities for young people to partcipate, by consulting with them through existing London channels and networks. 

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Young London Matters and Young People's Involvement

Each of the Young London Matters strands has a role to champion and listen to children and young people when developing and delivering their work programmes and across all strands aims to improve outcomes through:

• Raising the profile of children and young people's issues through existing vehicles such as Local Area Agreements, Joint Area Reviews and Children and Young People’s Plans.
• Embedding and highlighting existing good practice, particularly that which supports the engagement of vulnerable groups and disadvantaged communities.
• Supporting the development of local and regional arrangements for giving children and young people access to guidance and support to make informed choices about their lives.
• Develop approaches to supporting parental engagement in decision making.
  Promoting positive images of London's young people 

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Current work

1. The Government Office for London and Greater London Authority (GLA) Young Inspectors Programme, which aims to utilise the skills of a range of young people from across London and involve them in reviewing and ensuring young people’s contribution to individual boroughs Children and Young People’s plans.

Building on work done by the Office of the Children’s commissioner, their feeback will be incorporated into the development of the next round of Children and Young People’s Plans. The Young Inspectors' have reported back on the pilot with 6 London boroughs. Click here for more information. 

2. A Young Assessors project is being developed, again as a partnerhsip between the Government Office for London and the Greater London Authority. London’s young people are leading on developing a local and regional model for Young People’s Participation in the You’re Welcome Quality Standard which aims to increase youth friendliness of health services in particular:

• Developing and testing approaches for a young people friendly assessment tool
• Developing and testing approaches to engaging young people in the assessment process
• Developing and testing young people centered quality assurance procedures 

See the Issue of Capital Child on the GLA website for an update on the work of the Young Assessors 

 

For more information on either of these projects, contact the Young London Matters team at GOL.

 

Further Information