1. Involving children and young people

2. To understand participation as a process
Aims
To understand participation as a process
To use tools to plan, deliver and evaluate your participation work
To discuss challenges and some solutions
To develop an action plan to support your practice

3. Participation process
Purpose
Recruit
Plan
Deliver
Evaluate

4. Participation Process
Why do you want to involve young people? Purpose
Who do you involve? Recruit
Where are you recruiting young people from? Recruit
What types of decisions/ opportunities? Plan
What methods/ approaches are you using? Delivery
Reducing barriers to their involvement? Delivery
What difference has it made? Evaluation

5. Individual v’s strategic participation
Engagement of individual disabled children and young people
Engagement of individual parent carers and families
Strategic participation of parent carers
Strategic participation of disabled children and young people
It is important that local areas embrace all of these – and not one at the exclusion of others
Highlight the difference between individual and strategic participation to ensure a complete participation journey.

6. 10 high quality ingredients
Strategic
Embedded
Wide range of opportunities
Inclusive
Accessible
Young people set the agenda
Positive and meaningful
Staff understanding and skills
Monitored and evaluated
Brings about change
Valuing young people underpins all of this, so by being able to demonstrate evidence against all of these ingredients, we are valuing young people’s voice, participation and engagement

7. Indicators
Current evidence
How might you collect evidence?
Who do you need to involve?
Give yourself a RAG rating
Recommendations for action

8. 2017/18 IASSN CYP
Regional training events
Practical resources
Strategies for engaging cyp
Case studies
CYP network