Walsall Children's Services

There is now a procedure for all staff who are responsible for planning consultation, involvement or participation of children and young people and parents within Walsall including Walsall Council (Children’s Directorate),Walsall Safeguarding Board, Youth Services, Education Support Service, Walsall Children's Services , Walsall teaching Primary Care Trust, Youth Offending Service and Drug and Alcohol Action Team.

A guidance document offers more detailed advice around planning activity, accompanies this procedure, a copy can be requested from the user involvement manager.  Individual planning support can be requested.  For more details contact:

Resources

Procedure for planning consultation and involvement activity for Children's Trust Agencies

Consultation Diary Form

Consultation Planning Form

TDA Consultation Toolkit
Designed to help support the consultation process

Links

Every Child Matters
Participation of children and young people

Hear by Right
A tried and tested standards framework for organisations across the statutory and voluntary sectors

Participation Works
Online gateway to the world of children and young people's participation

School Councils UK
Helping schools to develop into caring, inclusive communities

Training and Development Agency for Schools - Consultation
The consultation process which schools need to go through before they offer extended services

Youth Opinions Unite (YOU)
Ensure that young people are not invisible and their views count