I represent the views of children throughout England receiving social care services, including looked-after children, those living away from home in residential education and care leavers.
The message from children about how leaders of children’s services can promote children’s rights and views is threefold. First, leaders must routinely and regularly seek children’s views and experiences, and offer them a choice of methods of expression wherever possible. Second, they should genuinely take children’s views as recipients of services as seriously as the views of managers and providers – children are no more or less likely to be biased. Third, they should consider children’s wishes, feelings and concerns when monitoring, developing and changing service provision.
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