Abstract
AbstractThis paper provides an account of an innovative research project that enabled the co‐creation with justice‐involved young people of a transformative framework of practice, termed Participatory Youth Practice (PYP). We present a description of our participatory research processes and reflect on our attempts to rebalance inherent power dynamics when working with marginalised young people. We demonstrate how young people's meaningful participation in research can strengthen their participation in service design and delivery. The embedding of the PYP framework in youth justice practice across a large region in England is a formative step in understanding the importance of young people's participation.
Highlights
A focus on young people's participation in decision-m aking in youth justice systems is gaining traction
This paper provides an account of an innovative research project that enabled the co-creation with justice-involved young people of a transformative framework of practice, termed Participatory Youth Practice (PYP)
We present a description of our participatory research processes and reflect on our attempts to rebalance inherent power dynamics when working with marginalised young people
Summary
A focus on young people's participation in decision-m aking in youth justice systems is gaining traction. The Child First Offender Second (CFOS) model based on the belief that ‘children are part of the solution, not part of the problem’ (Haines & Case, 2015:45), inherently advocates for the participation of justice-involved young people in youth justice service design and delivery. As we have discussed elsewhere (Smithson et al, 2020), it is our belief that co-production and child-led research is an underdeveloped aspect of models such as CFOS. The unique co-p roductive element advances other participatory models and facilitates young people's meaningful participation in decision-making. It is a formative step in the translation of participatory philosophies into a comprehensive framework of practice
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