Category Archives: Recog & Realising CYP’s Rights

Culture, Values & Ethos, Leaders & Managers, Other adults working with CYP, Participation, POLICY / GUIDANCE, Recog & Realising CYP's Rights, Respecting Views of CYP, Skills & Attitudes, Teachers

PWNW – Measuring Children and Young People’s Participation

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The National Children and Young People’s Participation Standards for Wales have been developed to improve the process of children and young people’s participation in decision-making. The Participation Standards measure the ‘quality’ of the process of children and young people’s participation against key agreed indicators.

In addition to measuring the process, it is important to assess the outcomes and the changes that have occurred as a result of children or young people’s participation.

Visit the PWNW Standards website.

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Children’s Rights in Wales

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Huge resource to support local practitioners, policy makers, managers and strategists develop their understanding of children’s rights and how to adopt a children’s rights perspective to their work.

Full training presentations with guidance for CYP, professionals from many multi-agency partners, parents and elected members.

Visit Children’s Rights in Wales.

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Primary School Assemblies

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This set of 21 assembly plans focuses on child rights and special days of the year, such as World Refugee Day, International Day of Disabled Persons, and World Health Day. They feature stories from children around the world and include suggestions for pupil participation.

 Visit the Primary School Assemblies page.

Children & Young People, Curricular Programmes, Leaders & Managers, Other adults working with CYP, Recog & Realising CYP's Rights, Secondary

Human Rights – dilemmas when rights seem to conflict

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Particularly useful for secondary schools working towards the Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA), this resource encourages young people to think about the nature of human rights and some of the dilemmas that may arise. The approach provides structures for teaching skills about thinking and forming opinions, as well as speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Visit the Thinking Rights page.

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Just Living

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Based on Article 27 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the right to a decent standard of living, this resource encourages young people to explore global citizenship and economic well-being. Topical issues relating to money will help young people make choices that are both financially and economically sound. Case studies bring a global perspective. Just Living is relevant to many secondary-level curriculum areas, especially the Economic Well-being and Financial Capability strands of PSHE.

Website inlcudes notes, powerpoints, videos and resources.

Visit the Just Living webpage.

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Rights Respecting School Award

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The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers / adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils.

Find out more about the RRSA.

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UNCRC

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In 1989, the world’s leaders officially recognised the human rights of all children and young people under 18 by signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Convention is the basis of all UNICEF’s work. UNICEF is the only organisation working for children recognised by the Convention.

The Convention says that every child has:

  • The right to a childhood (including protection from harm)
  • The right to be educated (including all girls and boys completing primary school)
  • The right to be healthy (including having clean water, nutritious food and medical care)
  • The right to be treated fairly (including changing laws and practices that are unfair on children)
  • The right to be heard (including considering children’s views)
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Golden Rules of Participation

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The Golden Rules for Participation are a set of principles designed to help anyone working with, and for, children and young people. Their purpose is to remind adults of what participation means from the point of view of children and young people, and to encourage children and young people to think about what they need from adults to support them to participate.

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