Community Organising, Decision Making, Participatory Budgeting and Crowd Sourcing. Turning Ideas into Action
Youth Conference for Climate Change
January 11th, 2020, Cardiff.
It is hard to live in the world and not be aware of Global Warming and Climate Chaos. We are all familiar with the doom and gloom scenarios about the future of
As part of the City Transformers project to engage more young people in the C40 Network of sharing ideas for sustainable cities, VocalEyes is being used by students from international schools to suggest, rate and ideas for action around SDG
National Democracy week starts on Monday 2nd July, 2018, the 90th anniversary of the 1928 Equal Franchise Act which gave women the same voting rights as men. It is also the 20th anniversary of devolution in Wales. Devolution has not however,
As a headteacher I am extremely passionate about the importance of listening to all stakeholder’s voices, in particular our staff, families and young people. However, I believe that listening to others voices must lead to action, otherwise it becomes little
Cardiff is the first city in Wales to take part in Unicef UK’s national Child Rights Partners programme. Between now and 2020, the local authority, including all of its delivery partners, are working in partnership with Unicef towards being recognized
VocalEyes and Dialogue Exchange have formed a partnership to support Participatory Democracy in educational contexts.
As part of this work we are writing a series of blogs. This is the first in that series.
A Framework for Implementation
Pupil Voice is an important
STUDENTS (Year 5 & 6 – age 9 to 11)
“I find its a good way to share ideas and have the entire school think about them.”
Lucas
“I think it’s good because you can put your own opinion and nobody knows it’s
Another great day invigorating Pupil Voice with participatory democracy, this time at Glyncollen Primary School in Swansea..
This is such an effective way of engaging pupils in the democratic process. Our School Council and Participation Groups love it and are already