Handsup - Educate

Get Info on Your Rights

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:07:10 +0100

The Children's Rights Alliance have started an advice service for children on human rights and equality law in England. It began on June 10th and can give you advice and information about your human rights and what to do if you are being treated unfairly.

You can call their confidential freephone* on 0800 32 88 759 between 3.30 and 5.30pm, Tuesday to Thursday, or email CRAE at

advice@crae.org.uk .

Textphone users dial 18001 first.

* Standard charges apply from mobiles.

Sex Ed training

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:55:54 +0100

Charity Fpa has just got a whole load of money to extend its 'Speakeasy' programme to Scotland. The project trains parents in how to talk about sex with their kids, so that they feel informed and confident enough to bring up embarrassing stuff. There's going to be a peer education programme to go with it soon too...

Participation in UK Government

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:02:32 +0000

The people in charge of making sure that the changes outlined in Every Child Matters actually take place are trying to improve the ways that young people can get involved in Government. They say:

'PK Research Consultancy and the National Children's Bureau have researched the most effective ways of involving children and young people in services. A useful handbook has been produced for practitioners [people who work with children and young people], backed up by a research report.

The handbook draws on the findings of a research study that explored the experiences of 29 organisations in seeking to listen to young people and take action on what they said. The research points to this being most likely to succeed where organisations had worked to sustain and embed their participation activity.

The handbook focuses on how to listen to children and young people so that their views bring about change.
It aims specifically to:

Identify and illustrate the benefits of child and youth participation
Guide organisations in thinking about how to create appropriate environments in which children and young people can be involved in meaningful ways, so that their views are listened to and acted upon
Help organisations explore how they can develop cultures and infrastructures which sustain and embed participation throughout all their activity

You can find out more about what the Government is trying to do to include young people through the links below....
Handbook - Building a Culture of Participation

Research report - Building a Culture of Participation

Learning to listen - Core Principles for the Involvement of Children and Young People

What's gone on: background info...

admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:07:48 +0100

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Education Action

admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:28:23 +0100

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