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The National Youth Agency: Briefing explores the best practice in participation in health settings

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A briefing document from the National Youth Agency discusses how its Hear by Right standards framework can help ensure legal compliance and best practice on the safe, sound and sustainable participation of children and young people in health settings.

The briefing is aimed at trustees and strategic leads across health services and their partners including strategic health authorities, primary care trusts (PCTs), NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts. It indicates how health services can meet statutory guidance and explores how to use the Hear by Right standards framework at strategic and operational levels across partnerships and departments.

The document quotes Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer for England, writing in the Department of Health's publication Under their Skins, as saying that the active participation of young people in making decisions about their health at both the individual and strategic level is key.

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