CYV Toolkits & guides
Youth voice isn't about who shouts the loudest. It's about making space for all young people, in all their diversity, to have a say.
The UK centre for youth participation practice
Every decision about young people, shaped with them.
Toolkits, evidence, data and training for anyone giving young people a real say in decisions: youth workers, commissioners, funders, researchers and young people themselves.
Or go to the Evidence Library trainingthe foundations
322 resources
313 research reports
48 events and training
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund
Three areas of work
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Each one takes you straight to the right shelf, whether that's data, toolkits or evaluation.
Data & evidence
New to youth voice? Start with the foundations: what it means, where it comes from and the frameworks people use Insight
Data and evidence on young people's lives and how youth voice works, from the Evidence Library to Youth Matters.
Explore Insight 225 resourcesInvolve
Practical toolkits for peer research, youth-led funding and decision-making, plus the toolkit training series and Communities of Practice.
Explore Involve 128 resourcesImpact
What changes when young people are heard: evaluations, measurement frameworks and case studies by the people who did the work.
Explore ImpactCYV Evidence Library
UK youth research, in one place.
A free, searchable collection of research about young people aged 16 to 25, from charities, funders, think tanks and local government: the reports that too often have no permanent home. Find evidence for a funding bid, an evaluation or a service design, and cite it with confidence.
- research reports
- 313
- organisations
- 172
- years covered
- 2010–26
- themes
- 15
Publications
From the Centre
All our publications → CYV 
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CYV Frameworks & standards
A Framework of Outcomes for Young People 3.0
CYV Learning & case studies
Young People's Participation in Decision-Making: UK 2022 survey report
Blogs, films and case studies
Voices
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Video
What Does It Mean to Be a Peer Researcher?
Amplify's peer researchers on what the role involves, what they got from it, and their advice for anyone thinking of getting involved.
Video
Amplify: London
Young people in London on the difference youth voice is making in the capital. One of four regional films from Amplify.
Case study
Grantmaking on Tour: taking funding decisions into Camden's schools
Camden Giving took participatory grant-making into sixth forms and youth clubs. A year on, 125 young people have reviewed 58 applications and awarded £83,500, paid above the London Living Wage for their time.