Children's rights in schools: Rights outside of school
Youth work has three essential features:
- Young people choose to participate.
- The work builds from where young people currently are.
- Young people and youth workers collaborate as partners in a learning process.
Youth work plays a crucial role in realising children's rights. By involving young people in social activism, youth work fosters citizenship, respect for human rights, and a sense of mutual responsibility. It empowers young people by providing opportunities to exercise genuine power, make decisions, see them through, and take responsibility for their outcomes.
Questions to consider
- Do young people have a right to access youth work activity?
- How does youth work uphold the UNCRC?
Additional resources to support practitioners
Youthlink Statement on the Nature and Purpose of Youth Work
Further information from the Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights
The cost of the school day report and film (CPAG) shares children's thoughts on school trips, food, what helps them feel ready to learn and their ideas about what should change.
