What are the barriers to involving children and young people?
In my experience the barriers to participation lie within other peoples negative and cynical attitudes towards children and young people generally, which can then result in a culture of further reluctance and obstacles to involve them. Many organisations today, involve young people in a number of ways through a participatory approach, the contradiction is that there still remain a number of agencies that don’t do this, and given their remit should do! The challenge is for us all to be much more vocal about the benefits of participation in order to effectively challenge the negative attitudes towards the whole process. On a different note, I firmly believe that the politics of participation has a role to play as a potential barrier. If we are trying to establish participation as a way of being with children and young people and effectively working with them across a range of services then we need to be much more effective and intelligent in terms of how we lobby central government on th
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