Shared support

Shared Support is part of the Making Participation Work programme, and the informal get-togethers aim to strengthen participation and co-production by sharing our learning.

We have received great feedback about our coffee mornings including:

•  ‘It was my first session and it exceeded my expectations, the variety of people’s roles in our break out group was great’ 
• ‘It is a brilliant forum for sharing resources and ideas’
• ‘It is good to hear other people’s experiences’
• ‘Great opportunity to meet new practitioners’
• ‘Open and supportive’

Previous discussions have focussed on:

• How to engage children and young people in responses to policy, and public events
• Virtual forums and groups, particularly how to set them up and how to recruit participants
• Effective participation strategies for strong youth services
• Ways to extend digital engagement to children and young people who may not traditionally engage online, or who are unable to easily access digital tools
• Safeguarding and risk assessments in the online setting

To get alerts when our monthly Shared Support sessions sign-up is open join the Making Ourselves Heard forum or follow our Twitter account and follow the link to the Eventbrite page.