The Council of Europe has recently launched a new participation handbook to support professionals working for and with children.
The aim is to guide implementation of the Council's recommendations on the participation of the child and young people under 18 in decison-making and Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The "Listen – Act – Change" handbook released by Council of Europe on children’s participation - a tool for all professionals working for and with children across Europe. It combines different modules to explain the concept of child participation in theory and practice, and to guide professionals towards its implementation in different settings – individually, collectively and in specific institutional contexts.
This handbook was created as a response to some needs expressed during Covid-19 period in 2020, when practitioners, experts and other persons who work with and for children, due to problem of influence on continuous child participation. For this to happen we need qualified staff who know how to reach out to children, and how to use information and communication technologies.
A recent webinar, held by the Council of Europe to launch the handbook, featured a number of speakers.
You can visit the Council of Europe website here to find out more about "Listen-Act-Change" and user manual for handbook can be found here.
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