Youth Voice in an empty room is but an echo. You need to be heard by the relevant decision-makers to stand a chance of making an impact. The challenge for young people who want to make a difference has always been how? Even if you are loud enough, or credible enough to be invited into a room of power, you can still be ignored after the photo-opportunity. Unless decision-makers also respond with "You said - we did" and are held to account in the process, young people's participation in policymaking is still vulnerable to tokenism, window dressing and manipulation. This has been the challenge faced by all youth-voice campaigners and those involved in youth participation for many years - how to be taken seriously enough and long enough, to actually ‘inform and influence' change.
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