Professor Tomlinson believed that children could contribute far more toour understanding of society if they were given the opportunity - atheme portrayed throughout this issue.
The journal's first article looks at how events like the foot and mouthepidemic are often not understood as being significant for children. Theauthors' analysis of contributions to the CBBC Newsround message boardshow how misunderstood many children living on farms felt during thistime.
One young person is quoted as saying: "I'm from a farm, listen to me andhear the real facts. Townies think they know it all, but they don'tunderstand."
Other articles look at young people in Northern Ireland's views of thepolice, research with children who do not use speech to communicate andconfidentiality in research.
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