If you throw a stone in a pond you get a ripple.
After last week’s ‘Children Lost in a Fractured System’ debate, 350 delegates, service leader panellists and young people, could now cause ripples of their own, starting cultural change as they take the messages from the evening back to their organisations.
Shared Vision recently worked with ChickenShed and the #WhyFest at London’s South Bank Centre to encourage to children speak up and be heard
Continue reading Making the invisible visible – by giving children the platform to speak out
Leigh, 16, had just finished his GCSEs when his uncle asked him to join the family business: selling heroin and crack cocaine.
When young musician Declan McKenna performed on Jools Holland’s Later programme on BBC2 recently, Declan’s teeshirt spoke louder than the lyrics of his song, with a plea in black on white: “Give 17-year-olds the vote.”
Continue reading How Chickenshed’s Crime of the Century gives children the power to speak out
