The National Youth Agency - Hear By Right, Act By Right and What's Changed

Hear By Right, Act By Right and What's Changed – new resources from The NYA

24 Jan 2008
The NYA believes - and demonstrates through its publications - that effective participation of children and young people demands three strong strands: standards for organisations (Hear by Right), skills for children and young people (Act by Right) and evidence of change (What’s Changed).

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Together these form a powerful triangle of participation to improve services and outcomes for children and young people, helping gain their rights to a good childhood and to fulfil their potential.

In recognition of these three strands we are pleased to launch the following new Participation resources:

The revised Hear by Right book
The revamped Hear by Right website
New information on Act by Right and
The new What’s Changed publication

The revised Hear by Right book

This revised 2008 edition has a number of new aspects designed to help to strengthen the integrity of the Hear by Right process and safeguard against tokenism. It includes

How any organisation can use Hear by Right to show evidence of an ‘adequate’ level of participation by children and young people
How to make sure there is recording of evidence of change in both the organisation and in children and young people’s lives
How Hear by Right is becoming more useful for community, voluntary and other Third Sector organisations as a central part of the Participation Works offer, funded by the Big Lottery Fund (BLF)
How all organisations and children and young people can make more practical use of the Hear by Right standards using the additional tools on the new CD and even more on the new Hear by Right shared learning website
How through partnership with Investing in Children partners can gain external validation of evidence from children and young people of their participation leading to dialogue and change

More information is available from the Hear by Right website >>

Hear by Right website

One of the most powerful participation tools in the world the website was established in 2003 by Tim Davies, one of The NYA’s first young trainers. It has been revamped and provides access to

A wealth of extra information and shared learning is available free on the website. Hear by Right is far bigger than the book and the site contains hundreds of examples from local authorities and voluntary sector groups on ‘building in not bolting on’ the participation of children and young people.
Details on how to get started with Hear by Right, stories of how others are using Hear by Right and downloads of all the resources on the CD.
The ‘explore hear by right in detail’ pages – designed to help you locate shared mapping and planning examples and to find shared resources by organisation, sector or indicator.
The ‘local network map’ - allowing you to locate other organisations in your area that are using Hear by Right.
You can subscribe to the latest Hear by Right news.

Access the Hear by Right website: www.nya.org.uk/hearbyright.

Additional Act by Right Resources

Includes:

Guide to Act by Right for workers
UK Youth Parliament Briefing developed and designed by young people.
Video clip containing an introduction to everything you wanted to know about Act by Right >>

New What’s Changed publication

What's Changed as a result of young people's participation. Things to do, Places to go.

This publication is a collection of case studies focusing on a key element of the youth offer - things to do, places to go. It is designed to showcase good practice and clearly demonstrates how young people can make positive, tangible change happen for themselves through participation.

More information is available on the What’s Changed pages: www.nya.org.uk/whatschanged

To purchase the revised Hear by Right book please contact sales or telephone 0116 242 7427.

For a limited period orders of both Hear by Right and Act by Right (£35 + p&p) will receive a copy of the What’s Changed publication.

For more information about any of the resources please contact the participation team.