Title: Children's Rights and Participation: What Preconditions? What Rights?
What Outcomes? What Next?
This Conference seeks answers to some leading questions in this field:
Does participation bring meaningful change, and if so for whom?
How important is child participation? How realistic is it?
Are there limits to participation (evolving participation, evolving
capacity) or clashes between child participation and the participation of
others?
What are the connections between rights and participation?
Who controls the participation agenda?
What are the perspectives of children themselves on participatory mechanisms
and processes?
Has participation run its course and, if so, is there a need for a new
approach?
Each speaker is asked to reflect upon the achievements and remaining
challenges in the children's and young people's rights and participation
agenda in their field, and ways of taking that agenda forward.
Speakers include:
Rob Williams, CEO of 11Million
Children and Young People form the Children's Rights Alliance for England
Prof. Tricia Sloper, SPRU
Vanita Sundaram, Educational Studies, University of York
Bill Badham, National Youth Agency
Speakers from SCF and UNICEF
Kirrily Pells, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Vicky Johnson, Development Focus Trust
Prof. Paul Gready, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York
Venue: University of York
Date: 1st July 2008
Organised by: Social Policy Research Unit and the Centre for Applied Human
Rights
Contact: 01904 434398
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Programme available on URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/news/rights.html
Rachel Pitman
Information Officer
Social Policy Research Unit
University of York
www.york.ac.uk/spru
(01904) 321981
The Social Policy Research Unit and the Social Work Research and Development
Unit are pleased to announce the merging of our two research units in order
to combine our mutual research strengths. Please see this webpage for
further details: www.york.ac.uk/spru/merger.html
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