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Child Friendly Gloucestershire Project

Working Title:

Myself; My Place, My Future: My

Gloucestershire

Primary Data Collection Project

Lead: Dr Louise Livesey

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Pack ContentsPack Contents....................................................................................................................................2

Why are we engaging?......................................................................................................................3

Data Collection Project.......................................................................................................................5

For Young People...........................................................................................................................5

For Gloucestershire........................................................................................................................5

Who are we engaging?......................................................................................................................6

What is the context of engagement?..................................................................................................6

Relevant Engagement........................................................................................................................7

Participation Methods.........................................................................................................................8

Peer Interviews...............................................................................................................................8

Peer Focus Groups........................................................................................................................8

Mapping..........................................................................................................................................8

Sandbox Version.........................................................................................................................9

Young Person Led Tours................................................................................................................9

Collages (virtual or hard copy)........................................................................................................9

Love/Meh/Hate Walls.....................................................................................................................9

Stories and Storytelling...................................................................................................................9

Poetry/Spoken Word/Rap.........................................................................................................10

Musical Choices...........................................................................................................................10

Word Play.....................................................................................................................................11

Right Words..................................................................................................................................11

Session Capture...............................................................................................................................11

What Happens Next?...................................................................................................................12

Appendices.....................................................................................................................................13

Person Q - Interviews...................................................................................................................14

Moderator - Focus Group.............................................................................................................15

Poetry/Spoke Word/Rap Questions..............................................................................................16

Word Play.....................................................................................................................................17

Right Words..................................................................................................................................18

Session Capture Page A..............................................................................................................20

Session Capture Page B..............................................................................................................21

Session Capture Page C..............................................................................................................22

Participant Information Form........................................................................................................23

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Why are we engaging?In 2017/18 the Police and Crime Commissioner was introduced to the Leeds Child Friendly initiative which is rooted in the United Nation’s work on children’s Human Rights. His interest was encapsulated in the question ‘What does a good childhood mean to young people growing up in Gloucestershire?’ In October 2018 the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) set up a Child Friendly Steering Group. Its aim was to look at how key people and existing structures in the county could work together to develop a Gloucestershire that was inclusive for all children. The Steering Group would look to develop a culture change drawing in statutory and voluntary agencies concerned with young people and their well-being.

The Steering Group concluded:- Gloucestershire should not adopt the Leeds Child Friendly model given that the way

the county operates is significantly different to a metropolitan area.

- The county has a good data base regarding school pupils which has been developed over many years via the On-Line Pupil Survey. However, this does not cover the 0-25 age range and is derived primarily from formal settings.

- There is no specific and unified strategy related to this age range.

- Diverse groups of young people appear not to be drawn into policy-making debates which affect them and their future – they are not engaged.

- There are many groups and organisations in the county, many of which are in the Third Sector, which have the concerns of young people in their remit. These often lack co-ordination and the authentic voices of young people are not systematically fed into their agendas.

- Nevertheless, another strategic group should not be created but there is a need to co-create with key bodies in the county a young person’s strategy: this should be achieved over time with the involvement of young people. The more pressing need, however, is to garner and understand the ‘diverse voices’ and experiences of young people in the county and to feed the findings into the work of other strategic groups.

- To maximise the impact of this engagement work a platform should be developed and employ modern communication techniques. It could be used by organisations involved with young people in order to keep in touch and include stories about young people and generated by them: most importantly it should be designed to be a voice for young people.

A diagrammatic representation of the concerns of this work is below:

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1 The current position

Arising from the above the proposal is that, going forward, three pieces of work constitute the agenda of the Child Friendly Project.

Piece A - Research-based activity which seeks to engage with as many different young people as possible in a variety of settings conducted through the University of Gloucestershire Social Sciences team. This is the project to which this data collection pack is attached. Other organisations will be engaged in this work of data collection. The findings will be used to inform the work of some of the strategic groups in the county as outlined above.Piece B - The University of Gloucestershire School of Media has been commissioned to develop a platform (including naming and appropriate logo) which can be used to collect information, engage with people across the county and disseminate a range of matters. It is the intention that young people will be involved in the development of the site and will create stories and videos which can showcase their work, their ambitions

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Child Friendly Gloucestershire Project and their experiences. It will also be important for outcomes of the suggestions of young people to be fed back to them systematically via this medium.Piece C - In the longer term it is anticipated that a county strategy for young people will be co-created. A launch event will be held at a date in the future to inform everyone officially of this aspirational work.

Data Collection ProjectThe Scoping Document for Project A produced by the Child Friendly Gloucestershire Leads identified three main aims, namely:

1- Obtaining the collective (and authentic) voice of Young People2- The Voluntary Sector not feeling part of, and being enabled to, contribute meaningfully to

the agenda (of the statutory agencies)3- Collective involvement of all communities and organisations within the county taking the

views of our young people into account when developing policy and practice.

The Position Statement 3: Creating a Child centred county’ details the current state of educational,

health, transport, economic, housing and employment in relation to young people in

Gloucestershire. What is missing from current work in the county is the collective and authentic voice of

Young People in the decisions that affect them. In the design of this work, we have been mindful of

the experiences and methodologies utilised in setting up the Child Friendly Leeds project (now in

its fifth year), wider strategies of engagement with diverse communities and the network type

model agreed for this piece of work. It has also focused on multi-route KISS (Keep It Simple)

methods which seek to involve the vibrant voluntary and statutory sector work which already exists

throughout the county.

For Young People This is a way for young people to express their needs and ideas It will provide a way for young people to feel valued within Gloucerstershire decision

making It can increase confidence of young people to participate in decision making

processes It will increase the knowing of young people of governing processes and ways they

can influence decision making that impacts them

For Gloucestershire Appropriately informs decision and strategy making taking account of all citizens Increases quality of policy and strategy decisions impacting young people Encourages inclusive, informed and evidence-based work practice Builds trust and transparency and encouragers greater involvement and

participation from young people

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Who are we engaging?The Project Scoping Documents outlines young people as those being aged 0-25. For this work we are primarily engaging with young people aged 8-25 years and we are engaging them within statutory and non-statutory organisation with whom they are already involved. This therefore allows for naturalistic data collection with trusted people as facilitators. For face-to-face settings, this booklet provides a variety of ways in which young people can engaged in this process through a variety of methods and activities.

For those who are not primarily reachable through organisational involvement, (particularly 18-25 year olds) GFirstLEP has an online survey at the current time from which we will use some of the data – this has become our online engagement methods to prevent duplication and because the questions they are asking are, in places, the same as those we are interested in. Young people who would rather engage online can do so at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MH7QHY6.

What is the context of engagement?This data collection exercise feeds into outputs and outcomes for the project including a Young People’s Summit in 2020. Below is a diagram – elements in Blue are the Primary Data Collection Project (Piece A above) and those in red are the Digital Storytelling Project (Piece B above).

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Young People’s Consultation Activity with

Diffuse Delivery

GFirstLEP data

Young People’s Summit

Deliverables:1. Young People created and prioritised

Goals/Aims2. Report3. Digital Story Telling products

Review of existing research and knowledge in County

Digital Story Telling products

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MH7QHY6


Relevant EngagementPurpose of the Primary Data Collection Project is to ensure that young people are involved in the generation of ideas and have a place in the prioritisation of needs and aims for Gloucestershire. This is beyond consultation (where the idea is to feedback on pre-determined alternatives, but focuses on involvement in generating options and ideas, collaboration with young people over identifying preferred solutions and empowerment in decision-making of the aims.

Involvement Collaboration EmpowermentIdeas generation via one of the exercises in this pack, disseminated through a range of statutory and non-statutory organisations across Gloucestershire. Most of the strategies are based around Youth Peer Consultation activities.

Using those ideas to generate potential aims and strategies which are then presented at the Young People’s Summit.

Young People’s Summit prioritises the aims ready for communication to policy makers.

The current strategy is on Roger Hart’s Sixth Step of Young People’s Participation in that, whilst adult led, decision-making is shared with young people. This is because the time-frame we had did not allow for a step seven or eight project. However young people (18-25) will be engaged in the analysis of the results (as well as contributing) through University of Gloucestershire Social Sciences courses.

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Participation MethodsWith each group we suggest using one of the following methods which you think is most appropriate to that group – you know them better than we do so either you can choose the most relevant method or you can give your group the choice of how they wish to engage. There are other ways of creating the discussions which support this data collection exercise so please feel free to experiment and let us know (on [email protected]) how it goes.

Peer Interviews1. Pair young people (or get them to choose who they want to work with)2. Get them to decide who is going to be Person Q and Person A3. Give Person Q in each group a question prompt card4. Emphasise that the idea is to help Person A talk about their ideas, Person Q shouldn’t

judge, criticise, persuade or otherwise influence what’s being said.5. Give a time limit, but be flexible as you don’t want to stifle conversation.6. At the end of the time limit you can either get people to swap roles or get people to swap

partners and swap roles.7. If you wish, you can do the whole process two or three times (moving partners each time)

to help people crystallise their thinking. Remind them that the point isn’t to make everyone agree, it’s to help everyone generate ideas.

8. Move to Session Capture Stage.

Peer Focus Groups1. If using peer moderators, get group to decide which one or two people will moderate. Peer

focus groups work best if they are 6-8 people with 1-2 moderators.2. Brief the moderator(s) that their job is to help everyone take part, be heard and feel valued.

Emphasise that the idea is to help everyone talk about their ideas, without judgement, criticism or persuasion from Moderators or other peer group members.

3. Give Moderators a question prompt card4. Give a time limit, but be flexible as you don’t want to stifle conversation.5. Ask Moderators to brief the focus group on purpose and how the group will run including

time limits.6. Move to Session Capture Stage.

Mapping1. Get the young people to individually or collectively draw a map of how they experience their

local area. 2. Get them to mark the nice places, the places they go to, the places they don’t like and the

places they avoid.3. Encourage discussion about why they like some places or things and not others.4. Get the young people to individually or collectively mark up a map of Gloucestershire in

terms of how they experience it.5. Get them to mark the places they go to, those they like, the places they don’t like and areas

they avoid.6. Encourage discussion about why they like some places or things and not others.7. Move to Session Capture Stage.

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Child Friendly Gloucestershire Project Sandbox Version

If you have access to sandpit and/or model houses, people, furniture, landscape items likes trees etc you can do the mapping exercise using 3D elements to build the local and/or Gloucestershire map. Once you’ve built your sandbox maps, Move to Session Capture Stage.

Young Person Led Tours1. Get young person to design a tour of their local area for someone absolutely new to the

area (can use “alien from outer space”, “someone who’s just arrived from another country”, “a new, very influential person who wants to know what to keep and what to change” or other similar concepts young people are comfortable and familiar with).

2. Get them to focus on showing what’s best about their area/the county and what needs improving.

3. Move to Session Capture Stage.4. If you wanted, you could get the young people to amalgamate these into a single actual

tour and invite people to see the area through young people’s eyes – if you’re doing this please let us know on [email protected] and also invite local councillors, other members of this project and of the GFirst LEP etc.

Collages (virtual or hard copy)1. Using either young people’s own phones (for virtual collage) or magazines, brochures and

leaflets, get young people to collage the good things about their local area.2. Encourage discussion about why they like some places or things and not others.3. Using either young people’s own phones (for virtual collage) or magazines, brochures and

leaflets, get young people to collage the things they’d like to see changed about their local area.

4. Encourage discussion about why they like some places or things and not others.5. Move to Session Capture Stage.

Love/Meh/Hate Walls1. Designate one area of the room LOVE THIS, one area MEH and one area HATE THIS (use

emoji pictures of similar to identify these)2. Get young people to write ideas down on slips of paper/post-it notes about what’s good,

what’s not good and what they’d like to change about their lives and where they live.3. Get them to put these in a box (all mixed up together)4. Read out one idea at a time and get people to identify whether they love, hate or feel

indifferent towards that suggestion or idea. Get them to talk in their groups about why they feel that way.

5. If you want to extend this, get them into threes (one from each category) to discuss why they feel that way.

6. Repeat for a number of slips from the box.7. Move to Session Capture Stage.

Stories and Storytelling1. Get young people to write or perform a story which showcases the best and the worst

aspects of where they live/the county.

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Child Friendly Gloucestershire Project 2. Brief them that within the writing/performance they must introduce a character (a very rich

person, fairy godmother, magician etc.) who can change one thing immediately to make a positive difference and they have to describe what that change would be.

3. Submit the stories (if in writing) or move to Session Capture Stage.

Poetry/Spoken Word/Rap1. Pair two participants together and ask them to interview each other using the questions

below. a. What is good about living in this area? (Further prompts) What do you enjoy? What’s

nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? What’s your happiest memory in this area? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about this area?

b. What could be improved in this area? (Further prompts) What doesn’t work around here? What would you change? What can’t you do? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? What’s your happiest memory in Gloucestershire? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

c. What is good about living in Gloucestershire? (Further prompts) What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about Gloucestershire?

d. What could be improved about living in Gloucestershire? (Further prompts) What doesn’t work in Gloucestershire? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What can’t you do? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? What would you change? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

e. If you could (magically) make one change in their lives, what would it be?2. Then get the participants to use their answers to craft a poem/spoken word piece/rap about

their partner’s views of Gloucestershire representing something positive and something negative.

3. As an extension activity (not required), participants can then take photos of their area using the poems/spoken word pieces/rap as inspiration for the pictures.

4. Move to Session Capture Stage.

Musical Choices1. Ask young people to pick a piece of music which expresses something about what’s good

about where they live.2. Encourage them to play a clip and explore why this says something good about their

area/the county.3. Ask young people to pick a piece of music which expresses something about what could be

improved in their area or the county.4. Encourage them to play a clip and explore why this says something about what needs to

change about their area/the county.5. Ask young people to pick a piece of music which expresses something about what they’d

like to change in their lives to make a better future.6. Encourage them to play a clip and explore why this says something about what they’d

change.7. Move to Session Capture Stage.

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Word PlayDid you ever make origami fortune tellers when you were young? After creating one from a flat sheet of paper, you use your hands to pinch the four sections together either lengthways or across to reveal a second layer. Unfold this part of the layer to discover your fortune in the centre. Word Play uses the same origami as a tool for people to make, share and exchange with others.

1. Help your young people make the origami tool (instructions in Appendix)2. On first inside layer write name of street they live on, name of local area,

name of district/town and finally Gloucestershire.

3. On inside Layer 2, where there are two segments for each of the four words get them to write Keep on one and Change on the other.

4. Get them to play with the origami tool so they talk to each other about what they would keep or change. (Remember they choose any number for the first movement and then A or B for the second).

5. Move to Session Capture Stage

Right Words1. Print out Right Word Appendix Sheets in colour and have newspapers, magazines and

leaflets ready.2. Get the young people to construct sentences using the Appendix Sheets and words from

newspapers, magazines and leaflets and glue the sentences down.3. Move to Session Capture Stage but use the glued sentences instead of Session Capture

Page B (and A if they’ve written anything positive).

Session CaptureIn all cases we want to end capturing the ideas generated – this will need introducing so that the participants feel this is the culmination of the work they’ve already done and is a short data capture exercise:

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Child Friendly Gloucestershire Project 1. Give each participant three slips of paper or one session capture page A. On these they

write the things that are good/they enjoy about living in Gloucestershire/their area of Gloucestershire.

2. Get them to place these in Envelope A.3. Give each participant three more slips of paper or one session capture page B. On these

they write the things that need improving/could be better about living in Gloucestershire/their area of Gloucestershire.

4. Get them to place these in Envelope B.5. Give each participant one slip of paper or one session capture page C. On this they write

the one thing they would change immediately if they had the chance.6. Get them to place these in Envelope C.7. Explain to the young people what happens next (see below) and ask if anyone is interested

in attending the Young People’s Summit in early 2020.8. Complete the Participant Information Form and place with Envelopes A, B and C in

Envelope D. Address Envelope D and return it to us.9. Keep an eye out for our invitation for your young people to attend the Young Peoples

Summit.

If your group would like to data capture in a different way (audio/video) please email [email protected] to discuss.

What Happens Next?The data is returned to Louise who is the lead for this project. It will then be analysed (collated and

made sense of) by students at University of Gloucestershire working under staff supervision. The

results will be shared initially with the Project Steering Group and then at the Young Peoples

Summit. At the Summit, Young People will get the chance to engage with and prioritise the

different ideas and topics in an interactive fashion. The Summit will be made up of 100 young

people from across the county including some who took part in the Primary Data Collection phase.

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AppendicesPerson Q – Interviews

Moderator - Focus Group

Poetry/Spoke Word/Rap Questions

Word Play Instructions

Right Words

Session Capture Page A

Session Capture Page B

Session Capture Page C

Participant Information Form

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Person Q - Interviews

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Person Q

Your job is to try and find out Person A’s thoughts, feelings and ideas on the following topics. Under each main question are some ideas about how to encourage Person A to say a little bit more and explore their ideas. Your job isn’t to judge, criticise or challenge these ideas, it’s about helping Person A work out what their ideas really are?

1. What is good about living in this area?

What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? What’s your happiest memory in this area? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about this area?

2. What is good about living in Gloucestershire?

What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? Can you say a bit more about that? What’s your happiest memory in Gloucestershire? Is there really nothing good about Gloucestershire?

3. What could be improved in this area?

What doesn’t work around here? What can’t you do? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

4. What could be improved about living in Gloucestershire?

What doesn’t work in Gloucestershire? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What can’t you do? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

5. If they could (magically) make one change in their lives, what would it be?

What one idea would make the most difference in your life? If you could have any single change, what would want? If your fairy godmother were to arrive tonight with one wish for you, what would you wish for (and it can’t be more wishes)?

Moderator - Focus Group

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Moderator

Your job is to try and find out everyone’s thoughts, feelings and ideas on the following topics. Under each main question are some ideas about how to encourage people to say a little bit more and explore their ideas. Your job isn’t to judge, criticise or challenge these ideas, it’s about helping your focus group members work out what their ideas really are. You can also contribute your own ideas but try and ensure that you get other people to talk too.


What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about this area?


What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about Gloucestershire?


What doesn’t work around here? What can’t you do? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?


What doesn’t work in Gloucestershire? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What can’t you do? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

5. If they could (magically) make one change in their lives, what would it be?


Poetry/Spoke Word/Rap Questions

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Your job is to try and find out your partner’s thoughts, feelings and ideas on the following topics. Under each main question are some ideas about how to encourage people to say a little bit more and explore their ideas. Your job isn’t to judge, criticise or challenge these ideas, it’s about helping your partner work out what their ideas really are so you can use them to craft a good piece.


What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? What’s your happiest memory in this area? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about this area?


What do you enjoy? What’s nice? What works around here? What do you appreciate having access to? Can you say a bit more about that? Is there really nothing good about Gloucestershire?


What doesn’t work around here? What would you change? What can’t you do? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? What’s your happiest memory in Gloucestershire? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?


What doesn’t work in Gloucestershire? What don’t you have access to that you’d like? What can’t you do? What isn’t enjoyable? What problems are there? What would you change? Can you say a bit more about that? Why doesn’t that work?

5. If you could (magically) make one change in their lives, what would it be?


Word Play

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Right WordsArea People How often What Action Other People Other Action Location Time

In Matson, Police Officers always complain about young people playing on the roads in the evening.

In Highview, schools never listen to students about problems with bullying in the parks after school.

In Gloucestershire, the council rarely asks young people what they want to happen in the next five years.

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Use

this

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upArea People How often What Action Other People Other Action Location Time

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Session Capture Page A

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What’s the second thing that’s good about living in

What’s the third good thing about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

What’s the first thing that’s good about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

What’s the second thing that’s good about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

Session Capture Page B

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What’s the first thing that’s not good about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

What’s the second thing that you’d like to improve about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

What’s the third thing that not so good about living in your area or in Gloucestershire?

Session Capture Page C

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If you could make one change happen overnight, what would it be?

Participant Information Form

Written Answers Check when

completeGroup Name & Type of Organisation

Contact Person

Contact Email

Contact Telephone

District/Area in which this data was collected

Age group of those involved (Give min/max ages of young people)

Was the group single gender or mixed gender?

Single Gender – MaleSingle Gender – FemaleMixed Gender

Group Size for this session

Have you included:Envelope A (good things)Envelope B (bad things)Envelope C (one change)Other Material (stories, maps, tours etc)

Please specify:

Is there anything that surprised or that was new to you in the conversations/responses to this exercise?

Did any young people express interest in being a Young Peoples Summit invitee?

Please give names here, we’ll come back to you to make follow-up contact.

Please return this all envelopes and this form to: PDC; Dr Louise Livesey, Francis Close Hall Campus, University of Gloucestershire, Swindon Road, GL50 4AZ.

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