Its been a very exciting day so far today. The team – Devon Participation Development Team- met to look at the training we deliver and to work on shaping it up and honing it.
We have now been working together as a group for about 6 months and although we still have little storms we are now pretty much at the performing stage. We worked on the basic training for youth workers we deliver and the introductory activity training we also run.
The team have really challenged me recently, as have other colleagues, and as a result we are starting to look at how we hold people who run consultation with young people more to account and how we can track that. As blogging is my new favourite thing in the world I somehow feel a blog may be coming on looking at what consultation takes place, reviewing it and then what happens as a result of the commitments made to young people.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot around in the field of Participation around accountability. There is a lot about how to do it and the importance of letting young people knowing what you will do – but that doesn’t really go far enough. It’s certainly a gap – maybe we will just have to fill it. I’m currently thinking about how we adapt the Plan, Do, Review Cycle.
Lots to think about over the next week or two…any ideas gratefully received.