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Practicing Participation inYouth Justice
Peta HallsDevelopment Officer
National Youth Agency
• Our mission: enabling youth workers to transform lives
• Our focus: NYA helps youth workers to transform the lives of young people in three ways:– By championing the distinctive role that youth workers
can play– By enabling youth workers to do what they do, better– By helping to professionalise youth work.
NYA participation definition:
Children and young people have a right to be involved in the decisions that affect them; their participation is essential to improve services and respond to their needs, and the shared aim of their participation should be change.
NYA participation work
• HbR participation standards framework and HbR awards scheme
• Voice and Influence in the Youth Justice System (2010)
• Impact and Effectiveness of Participation in the Youth Justice System (2011)
• Positive Participation Youth Justice Training (2011)
Policy and Legal Context
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989
• Children’s Act 2004• YJB National Standards for Youth Justice
(2009)• Positive for Youth (2011)
Positive Participation:Youth Justice Training
• Free training resource to raise awareness of participation in the youth justice system
• Provides an understanding of:– participation in the youth justice system;– the benefits; – the legal and policy context;– practical steps to engage with young people to
increase their participation;– and develop plans to improve participation.
Positive Participation:Youth Justice Training
• Training designed to be delivered by and to YOT practitioners
• This training resource covers the following elements:– Section 1 – What is participation?– Section 2 – Why bother?– Section 3 – Participation and engagement– Section 4 – Participation – next steps
Positive Participation:Youth Justice Training
• Exercises:– Section 1 - What is participation?
• 1.1 Human Bingo– Section 2 - Why bother?
• 2.4 What’s in it for you?– Section 4 – Participation next steps
• 4.1 Takeaway Menu
www.nya.org.uk/targeted-youth-services/community-safety-and-
youth-justice