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Following the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the case for children's involvement in decision-making processes has been championed by pressure groups and voluntary organisations. Planning with children for better communities argues that there is now a need to transfer these ideas and experiences to mainstream services of local authorities, regeneration agencies and other organisations. In addition to clarifying why the issue of children's participation should be prioritised, the authors use examples and case studies from a variety of professions and disciplines in order to explain different methods which can be used to support participation. The book: analyses children's and young people's contemporary place in local communities; locates debates about children's and young people's participation in local communities within government social and economic policy; captures children's and young people's views and experiences of community life. The authors conclude that there should be greater recognition of the right of children to determine significant decisions affecting them - children have a clear entitlement to involvement in key decisions which influence their liv

Who reads Planning with Children for Better Communities : The Challenge to Professionals?

Author

Claire Freeman; Paul Henderson; Jane Kettle; Community Development Foundation (Great Britain)

Publisher

The Policy Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781861341884

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science