Carnegie Young People Initiative

Inspiring Schools is a series of publications which examine the Impact of Pupil Participation in School Settings, written by Professor Lynn Davis of Birmingham University. Inspiring Schools is an extensive literature review, which draws on existing evidence about the benefits of pupil voice. The series comments on a range of pupil participation activities and strategies adopted by schools and illustrates a wide variety of frameworks and participation activities.

The series includes the following publications:

• Inspiring Schools: Impact and Outcomes
• Inspiring Schools: A Literature Review
• Inspiring Schools: Case Studies for Change

Inspiring Schools is a series of publications which examine the Impact of Pupil Participation in School Settings, written by Professor Lynn Davis of Birmingham University. Inspiring Schools is an extensive literature review, which draws on existing evidence about the benefits of pupil voice. The series comments on a range of pupil participation activities and strategies adopted by schools and illustrates a wide variety of frameworks and participation activities.

The series includes the following publications:

• Inspiring Schools: Impact and Outcomes
• Inspiring Schools: A Literature Review
• Inspiring Schools: Case Studies for Change

Inspiring Schools is a series of publications which examine the Impact of Pupil Participation in School Settings, written by Professor Lynn Davis of Birmingham University. Inspiring Schools is an extensive literature review, which draws on existing evidence about the benefits of pupil voice. The series comments on a range of pupil participation activities and strategies adopted by schools and illustrates a wide variety of frameworks and participation activities.

The series includes the following publications:

• Inspiring Schools: Impact and Outcomes
• Inspiring Schools: A Literature Review
• Inspiring Schools: Case Studies for Change

they help you get respect: How Participation Workers help Children & Young People

This is a booklet and DVD film package created by members of the Participation Workers Network for England (PWNE) as an introduction to ‘participation work’. It is a valuable tool for all those who wish to improve the way they involve children & young people – not just ‘Participation Workers’. If you click ‘Read More’ below you can view a short clip of the film and even download the whole 10 minutes onto your PC.

Remixing Citizenship starts from the position that it is not young people that are disconnected from formal politics, but political institutions that are disconnected from young people.

The report sets a new agenda for debating the relationship between young people, the Internet and democracy. It argues that the nature of citizenship is changing – there is a generation moving to newer, more creative forms of participation and that new forms of communication are key to this. Young people are now able to sample and remix citizenship, picking
out the desired elements and discarding those that lack relevance. Remixing Citizenship refers to the idea of adding one’s own innovation to the concept
of citizenship.

In April 2003 the Children and Young People’s Unit (CYPU) in the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned the Carnegie Young People Initiative to examine the evidence regarding organisational participation infrastructure in the statutory and voluntary sectors in England. This report looks at existing research on participation infrastructure. This is supplemented by a review of the much greater accumulation of policies and by over thirty discussions with key stakeholders, comprising academics, policy makers and practitioners.

This report examines the different ways in which involving young people in decision – making could be measured and evaluated. It recommends a number of different ways of effectively evaluating work in a variety of settings. As a result of this report, Carnegie YPI is now planning the production of an evaluation toolkit.

Published in 2002, this is the first ever survey which looks at training, support and developmental needs of Participation Workers in England. Its main recommendation was the need for a Participation Workers Network. Carnegie YPI has taken this recommendation forward. To find out more about the Participation Workers Network for England.

This report raises the question of how standards can be applied to young people’s involvement in the decisions which shape their lives. It looks at the use of standards by young people’s organisations and others and draws lessons.

Can ICT reduce the democratic deficit? This report explores and analyses a number of youth projects that use ICTs, and concludes that the digital technology has an important part to play, but only if young people are offered power over decisions that affect them.