Hart's Ladder of Participation
A model for thinking about different levels of children and young people's participation, from tokenism through to shared decision-making.
Source: Roger Hart / UNICEF Innocenti Essay
Youth Voice and Youth Participation
Frameworks that help organisations move beyond tokenism and create meaningful space, voice, audience and influence.
How to use this cluster: Treat these frameworks as lenses. Start with the practical question you need to answer, then choose the framework that clarifies the next decision without flattening local context.
Frameworks in this cluster
Lundy Model of Child Participation
A rights-based model built around space, voice, audience and influence, helping organisations make participation meaningful.
Source: Laura Lundy / Queen's University Belfast
Hear by Right
A youth participation framework and standards approach for embedding young people's voice across organisations.
Source: National Youth Agency
Youth-Adult Partnership
A way of working where young people and adults share power, learn from each other and make decisions together.
Source: Youth-adult partnership research and practice field
Cluster questions
- What problem are we trying to understand more clearly?
- Which people should help interpret this framework in context?
- What would responsible use look like in practice?
- What claims would be too strong for the evidence we currently have?
Use the framework selection tool or return to the full library.