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The Centre for Youth Voice: project discovery consultation summary

Eli Adie and Rammiza Akhtar, YMCA George Williams College · January 2024 · Learning report

How the Centre for Youth Voice was shaped: interviews and focus groups with 38 practitioners and 26 young people on the strengths and gaps in youth voice practice across the UK. It ends with the action plan they co-created for the Centre.

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What's inside

01
Who we asked
64 people: frontline workers, managers, funders, researchers and young people.
02
Capacity building
Calls for free training, shared definitions and ready-to-use templates.
03
Research and evidence
Hard to find, often paywalled, and rarely youth-led or long-term.
04
Stories and networks
Share failures as well as successes, and reach beyond London and Manchester.
05
Regional Ambassadors
Where the Youth Voice Ambassador model came from, and how young people wanted it to work.
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The action plan
Actions on capacity, evidence, communications, networking, youth engagement and governance.