Children and Young People Participation
Children and young people under the age of 19 make up a quarter of the total number of people living in Barnet. That’s almost 100,000 children and young people using local services and attending our schools and colleges.
With this many children living in our borough, we want Barnet to be a family-friendly place to live and go to school.
To help us get it right, we want children, young people and families living here to tell us how well we are doing, what we need to do differently, and help us make the changes they want to see.
Children, young people, and families have helped shape and co-produce many of our strategies and policies through feedback, consultation or design on various projects.
Some examples of these are:
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The ‘My Say Matters Child Participation and Family Involvement Strategy’ has changed the way we work. Barnet Family Services are committed to seeking, listening to, and acting on feedback from children, young people and their families. What they say really does matter to us. We now have a series of films that capture feedback and showcases all the work we have done as a result of what the young people have said. Check out these videos to give you a flavour of all the work.
View the projects young people have been involved in on our Barnet youth website.