Are you serious? Involving young people in children's service planning
Autor: | Stieneke Willis, Darren Boyle, Michael Harrigan, Emma McCaffrey, Geraldine Murphy, Nicola Rodgers, Fiona Mullin |
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Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Zdroj: | Child Care in Practice. 9:213-216 |
ISSN: | 1476-489X 1357-5279 |
DOI: | 10.1080/1357527032000167768 |
Popis: | This paper was written by the Making A Difference Today (MAD2DAY) Group, which is a group of young people who came together over the past 24 months in order to support the participation and involvement of young people in the Western Area Children's Services Plan. This group, supported and mandated by the Western Area Children and Young People's Committee, has been based on the core principle of peer-led involvement in planning, and has recently hosted the ‘Are you Serious?’ Conference held at the Broomhill Hotel in Londonderry on 30 June 2003, at which some 120 young people representing organisations throughout the Western Area came together to give their views of the services available to them. The paper was delivered to the ‘Think Global — Act Local’ Conference held in Ballymena on 29 November 2002 to launch the four Children's Services Plans for Northern Ireland by Fiona Mullin, and to the ‘Child Care in Practice’ AGM at the in Belfast on 29 May 2003 by Stieneke Willis. It addresses the experience of t... |
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