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Starting with choice: inclusive strategies for consulting young children
- Authors:
- DICKINS Mary, EMERSON Sue, GORDON-SMITH Pat
- Publisher:
- Save the Children
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
When children are encouraged to choose, they develop confidence and the ability to make decisions for themselves. It is good for them, and for the places they learn and play. Young children with disabilities have a right to make choices too. Involving all children in decision-making can be challenging but, if the right questions are asked in the right ways, young disabled children can and will express their views. The book provides practical guidance on consulting young children, and a range of techniques that help young children to express their views and make choices. It also looks at when consultation can be effective, at how it fits in to the foundation stage guidance, and at how to train and support early years workers to gain the skills they need.
Consultation: plan of action or management exercise?
- Authors:
- TOWNSON Louise, CHAPMAN Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Consultation is one of the 'four Cs' of the government's Best Value initiative. The authors argue that consultation in its own right is not enough, and that people should be involved on committees right through to the top if a real change is to take place.