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What about the kids?
Holly Walker and Kathleen Logan Strategy, Rights & Advice Office of the Children’s Commissioner Considering impacts on children during legislative review
Law Commission August 2016
What about the kids? Considering impacts on children during - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Edit Title see notes Holly Walker and Kathleen Logan below Strategy, Rights & Advice Office of the Childrens Commissioner What about the kids? Considering impacts on children during legislative review Law Commission August 2016
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- cc.org.nz/
statsonkids
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You should leave today with
- A clear definition of
child-centred thinking
- A grounding in
children’s rights
- A tool to apply child-
centred thinking to your work
- Where to go for more
information
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Young People’s Advisory Panel:
advice to Minister of Social Development
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Defining child-centred
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Some people might have the preconception that being child-centred means doing whatever children say and looks something like this video from Jono and Ben’s ‘Kids Review’ show…
https://youtu.be/rlVP-g_0X34?list=PLvM6c4j3Bg-xM_3GjzfmVBC4Zchr9wCRD
(official youtube channel)
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Being child-centred is
Basing decisions and actions
- n what’s best for children
- Recognising that children
have rights
- Understanding what
children need
- Asking what children think
and listening
- Making decisions
accordingly
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When done well, it can look more like this consultation of children for SKIP (parenting resource)
https://youtu.be/2b8IcbII1Ec
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“The children of the State have a voice and know the system better than anybody. Please ask us.”
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Introduction to children’s rights and needs
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UNICEF and Save the Children supported their Youth Ambassadors to ask children what they thought about their rights, and about issues they face. They reported that children can be surprisingly articulate and are experts on their lives and things that affect them.
https://youtu.be/RiqRk7wxXh4
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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Four Principles:
Non-discrimination Best interests Life, survival and development Voice of the child
Protection
From cruelty, abuse, neglect Housing Social Security Healthcare Education
Rights of the Child
Information Special education Tenancy regulation Decile funding Welfare policy Obesity prevention CYF reform Raising the age Violence prevention Bullying prevention Online safety Tell them what to expect
Rights and policy areas
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A child-centred tool for decision-making processes
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Four questions to ask:
- 1. How will the decision affect children?
- 2. What are the differential impacts?
- 3. What do children say?
- 4. What will you do about it?
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Question 1: How will the decision affect children?
- Impact of Auckland’s CBD urban
planning on children
- First considered what children need
and what facilities were available – child care, recreation etc.
- Then asked children
- Expected and unexpected findings –
e.g. 60 percent concerned about noise
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Question 1: How will the decision affect children?
Sense of identity and belonging Stable, nurturing family Supportive community and play Adequate income to meet needs Education that develops the child Access to health services Safe, healthy homes Safe, healthy environment
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Question 2: What are the differential impacts?
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Question 2: What are the differential impacts?
- Younger/older children
- Ethnicity
- Disability
- Gender-identity-diverse
- Groups with different characteristics, e.g. with
parents in prison, parents with disabilities
- How can these impacts be mitigated (or amplified,
if one group is targeted to benefit)?
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Question 3: What do children say?
‘My World My View’ Ministry of Education consultation on inclusion: https://vimeo.com/169769705
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www.occ.org.nz
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Methods of Engagement
www.occ.org.nz/listening2kids/how-you-engage/ engagement-methods/
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Question 4: What will you do?
Base your decisions on the information:
- Understood effects on children /differential
impacts Make conscious decisions in best interests of children:
- Amplify positives / Mitigate negatives
- Justify negative impacts
- Anticipate consequences
Demonstrate that you have considered children
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You should leave today with
- A clear definition of child-centred thinking
- A grounding in children’s rights
- A tool to apply child-centred thinking to your work
- Where to go for more information
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