How NCB works with children and young people externally

Advisory or steering groups with a role in relation to a larger strategic agenda.

Group name and description	Longevity of group
DCSF Children and Youth Board, a group comprising 25 children and young people from all 9 Government Regions - accountable to DCSF, supported by NCB (Policy Unit).	Until March 2011
Young Advisory Group for the Child Safety Education Coalition - 20 young people in North West, Yorkshire and Humber, London and Midlands (Well-being).	Funded for three years
Young Anti-Bullying Alliance (Well-being).	Funded until 2011
Young People group for children in care ( Social Inclusion/NCERCC)	Long term
Council for Disabled Children steering group of disabled young people	Long term
Young People’s Public Health Research Group (PEAR)	October 2011
Centre for excellence and Outcomes (C4EO) young researcher panel of young people advising on knowledge reviews using film as well focus groups and young researchers.	2011
Membership of adult led groups e.g. Youth Crime Action Plan Steering Group	ongoing
Participation Works – the effective engagement of children and young people in formal meetings. Membership of a mixed adult and young person group steering the development of the PW effective engagement of children and young people in formal meetings.	2011
Young Children's Voices Network	2011

2. Project work that can target specific young people with specific life experiences e.g. bereavement, public care, HIV and Aids, offending, disability, long-term health conditions, supported housing, poverty and so forth.

Project name and description	Longevity
Heath Challenge Group (Well-being)	Existed for 1 year
Life Routes – young people developing life skills in 4 regions of England. (Well-being)	Funded by Nokia until 2010
Small Steps to a Sustainable Future project (Well-being)	March 2010
My Money young advisors (Well-Being/YNCB)	Funded 2011
Young Product Assessors ( Participation Works)	Funded to 2011
Managing My Way (CDC)	Funded to 2012
Young Evaluators - Evaluation of Youth4U - Young Inspectors	2011
Volunteer Leadership Programme	2011

Within the above projects and beyond, NCB produces tools and products that help the sector to develop their practice and also to include young people in their work such as:

A guide for participation work in play, design and build with 8-13 year olds, produced by Play England.
A series of How to Guides addressing many of the issues practitioners and commissioners face in trying to involve young people, produced by Participation Works.

Project work led by Young NCB (YNCB)

Examples of this would be a survey on smacking among members and their networks supported by NCB’s research staff, advising the Metropolitan police and producing films of their opinions of knife and gang crime, speaking at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children, meeting shadow ministers on matters of anti-social behaviour. As long as what they wish to do is not contrary to NCB’s vision and mission we will support them in communicating their voices. When PHSE was a priority for Young NCB they were successful in supporting NCB to canvass Government to make the subject a statutory subject. They did this through attending meetings and sharing their views with government officials.

The volunteer Leadership Programme funded by V arose from feedback from YNCB members about the need to enable young people to get their voices heard about local issues.

Consultations facilitated by NCB with young people

Like many other voluntary organisations NCB is able to facilitate access to children and young people in response to consultations. NCB is also part of a small group which is likely to support 11Million in its efforts to listen to the views of children and young people now they do not do this from their centre. The most recent piece of this work has been on Ending Violence against Women and Girls for the Home Office as part of a cross government initiative. We sought the views of young people and offered the only consultation with young people on this area.