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Children's voices in systems reform : a case study on children and young people’s participation within the modernisation of Child, Youth and Family Luke Fitzmaurice

By: Fitzmaurice, Luke.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleSeries: Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work.Publisher: Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2017ISSN: 2463-4131.Subject(s): New Zealand. Child, Youth and Family | ADOLESCENTS | CHILD PROTECTION | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | VOICES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE | FOSTER CARE | SOCIAL POLICY | SOCIAL SERVICES | SOCIAL WORK | YOUNG PEOPLE | NEW ZEALANDOnline resources: Click here to access online In: Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2017, 29(1): 41-52 (Open access)Summary: In 2015, an independent panel was appointed to overhaul Aotearoa New Zealand’s care, protection and youth justice systems. This article discusses the mechanisms used to involve children and young people in that review and evaluates the extent to which these mechanisms lived up to best practice. The article takes a case study approach: exploring the ways in which the Expert Panel enabled children and young people to have a meaningful role in the process. The author was a member of the Expert Panel Secretariat, which supported the Panel during the review. The impact that young people’s voices had on the process motivated this research in order to explore what made their input effective, and what could have been improved. (From the author's abstract). Record #5388
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Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2017, 29(1): 41-52 (Open access)

In 2015, an independent panel was appointed to overhaul Aotearoa New Zealand’s care, protection and youth justice systems. This article discusses the mechanisms used to involve children and young people in that review and evaluates the extent to which these mechanisms lived up to best practice. The article takes a case study approach: exploring the ways in which the Expert Panel enabled children and young people to have a meaningful role in the process. The author was a member of the Expert Panel Secretariat, which supported the Panel during the review. The impact that young people’s voices had on the process motivated this research in order to
explore what made their input effective, and what could have been improved. (From the author's abstract). Record #5388