Youth Participation Growing Up?

Changemakers in partnership with the Local Government Information Unit has published Youth Participation Growing Up? This report makes several recommendations including :-

> Local authorities should make more use of the growing popularity of Social Networking Sites when advertising opportunities for young people.

> Local authorities should place a greater emphasis on ensuring that potential applicants are drawn from a more diverse pool of aspirants.

> For youth consultations to be meaningful they need to be frequent and youth-led.

> All local authorities should adopt a standard framework for monitoring and evaluation to measure the effectiveness and wider impact of youth participation models in their local area.

> Effective feedback mechanisms should be put in place by local authorities to ensure that the impact of their involvement is made known to participants.

The full report can be downloaded at

https://member.lgiu.org.uk/whatwedo/Publications/Documents/Youth%20participation.pdf
 

[source: Angela Barnes, navca]