Realising Children's Rights Participation Toolkit - Appreciative Inquiry by Jo Williams

7 Golden Rules for Participation

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-05 12:35:31 UTC

Please be mindful of these golden rules in your participation work :)

Know your rights - Activity 2: Rights Chatterbox

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 18:46:56 UTC

Chatterbox based on the rights identified through York Youth Council's survey which are most important to children and young people in York.
- Play with a partner
- How does your home, setting, organisation help you with this right?
- What could be even better?

Know your rights - Activity 1c: Wants and Needs

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 18:48:49 UTC

Printable cards and activity to discuss wants and needs - Scout Association

AI - Activity Idea 1: Discovery

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- Cut out symbols for articles outlined in the guidance
- Ask children or young people or adults to identify which rights are strengths in the setting/group/organisation? What is already working well and why?

AI - Activity Idea 2: Dream

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 18:58:04 UTC

Wish tree - wishes to support children's rights
- What is your wish for your setting/group/organisation?
- Write/draw on a tag and hang it on the wish tree

AI - Activity Idea 3: Dream

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 18:58:21 UTC

Dream wheel
- Weave coloured wool, ribbon, raffia etc
- What are your dreams for children and young people in the setting/group/organisation? How can their rights be championed?
- Write on a tag and attach to the dream wheel

AI - Activity Idea 2: Design

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 18:58:59 UTC

Make an action plan
- Choose 3 priorities and identify who, what, when and how
- Think about who is going to do the work and who is going to check on progress?
- What should be the outcome? What are you going to do?
- When are going to do this? When will it be achieved?
- How are you going to do this? What resources are needed?

Know your rights - Activity 3: Right to play and leisure (Article 31)

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 19:01:47 UTC

Tell children and young people about their right to play and leisure (Article 31) - ask them what they like to play and do in their leisure time.
- Create a display of play and leisure activities that children and young people enjoy:
- Drawings
- Photographs from home/setting
- Paintings
- Collage
- Grafitti wall

Appreciative Inquiry

jowilliams027 — 2022-07-14 19:05:57 UTC

We have thought of some example activities you can use with children and young people to help them share their views about how they experience children's rights - see columns to the right in this Padlet.
We are asking 4 Big Questions:
1. Discover - What's already working well?
2. Dream - What could we be like?
3. Design - How can we plan to make things even better?
4. Destiny - How can we act to make this a rights-respecting service/setting/group/organisation?

or get creative and devise your own to suit the needs of those you are working with.

For ideas of how to launch each stage of the appreciative inquiry using themed days/assemblies/projects please click on the 'Introducing the CRC and children's rights resources' tab.

AI - Activity Idea 1: Destiny

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Carry out your action plan!

Useful scripts/images

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York data linked to Articles of the CRC

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- You can ask children and young people to vote which is most important to them

Voice pledge

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Introduction to using Appreciative Inquiry for groups/settings

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Introduction to the UNCRC and embedding rights in York

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Click on the image for a wealth of resources to introduce the CRC and children's rights

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Padlet containing rights resources

Children's Rights and using the toolkit for services/organisations

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Know your rights - Activity 1b: Wants and Needs

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 17:31:42 UTC

Printable cards and activity to sort wants and needs and link to Articles in the CRC

Know your rights - Activity 1a: Wants and Needs

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 17:33:42 UTC

Unicef activity - printable cards and activity to sort wants and needs and link to Articles in the CRC

AI - Activity Idea 1: Dream

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 18:13:37 UTC

Graffitti wall, rich picture or 'Ideal setting' activity to capture your vision of what a rights respecting setting/group or organisation would ideally include.

AI - Activity Idea 1: Design

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 18:14:41 UTC

Ask participants to map their ideas of what we can do in York
- Chalk board/Builders tray
- Graffitti Board
- Mind maps
- Large pieces of paper and pens

AI - Activity 3: Design

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 18:58:56 UTC

Make a pledge:
- Can you tell a friend, childminder, club, school, college about children's rights?
- Can you take a leaflet to your service/setting/school/college?
- Can you find out more about the CRC and rights?
- Can you start using the language of rights and link to articles in the CRC?
- Can you start using the Voice Pledge in meetings/projects?

Go back to Discovery and start the AI cycle again

jowilliams027 — 2023-06-22 19:03:07 UTC

- Which rights are being promoted and accessed?
- What has helped us do this?
- What is working really well?
- What are our strengths in terms of children's rights?

Introduction to the Children's Rights Toolkit

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Our partner organisation RealisngRights

jowilliams027 — 2023-09-29 11:28:42 UTC

RealisingRights provided us with consultancy and training around embedding a child rights based approach in York. To find out what they can offer please visit their website.

Brief overview of the toolkit and how to get started

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Overview of toolkit - Video

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Examples

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Click on the image to take you to another Padlet.