Our Voices

Peoples blogs about the project and how it has affected them.  Also include video snippets from kids.

• Do or do not; there is no try (Yoda, 896 BBY – 4 ABY)
  As I look back over this project which began with the aim of taking a number of NHS “Child Sexual Exploitation Assessment Tools”, working with some children and young people and trying to work out what the “best” questions were from the multitude of tools that are around, and I… Read more: Do or do not; there is no try (Yoda, 896 BBY – 4 ABY)
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• Acted Story
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• Let us have our say!
  ‘Let us have our Say!’ ‘Make decisions about us, with us. Let us have our say! Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health Youth Advisory Panel member   Organisations of all kinds, including health and social care organisations, are increasingly required to involve service users, including Children and Young People… Read more: Let us have our say!
• Deana Bates
  When I was approached by Professor Andrew Rowland about working on the ‘Not just a thought’… project, I thought I would merely take minutes at meetings and do a bit of typing. Never once did I think I would be encouraged to be an active participant in such a wonderful… Read more: Deana Bates
• Co-design of services in partnership with children, young people and young adults
  Co-design of services in partnership with children, young people and young adults Healthcare decision-making involving children and young people can be a difficult process, especially in situations of serious illness. When children are ill, adults have an understandable desire to protect them from difficult decisions and to shield them from… Read more: Co-design of services in partnership with children, young people and young adults
• The most important thing that adults should do
• We are the future
• We want adults to listen to us
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• Children have valid points
• Children have ideas