Children are in a unique position as an often marginalised group unable to get their grievances heard. Yet they are a group with endless imagination and energy who could produce solutions for sustainable regeneration in deprived neighbourhoods.
What is needed is an approach that recognises their different needs and perceptions and a response that builds them in - at the heart of planning, developing and delivering the new landscape.
Raising Our Sights, a single regeneration budget programme run by Lambeth Education Business Partnership, was set up three years ago to help young people have more of a say and gain skills. It funded the North Lambeth Holiday Impact Programme, which is run by young people and gives them the opportunity to manage a budget. Many of those who have taken part and gained training have returned to train their peers. It has also part-funded Lambeth Youth Council, whose initiatives include monitoring youth centres to gauge where there are gaps in provision.
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