The widespread privileging of children’s voices in recent times has triggered expansion differing forms qualitative enquiry that aim to “give children a voice.” Engaging research and eliciting their on matters affect them is often showcased as being more “authentic” way capture lived realities afford agency. Yet, the uptake voice enquiry, how it may contribute particular ways knowing (some) lives, rarely interrogated. Drawing examples from our own research, this paper we critically reflect...

Debates over how to determine age of consent for youth participate in research feature prominently the practice researchers, ethics boards (REBs), and community decision makers working with youth. In particular, tensions can arise ethical principles beneficence, autonomy, justice are interpreted applied involving young people. We discuss our experiences obtaining approval conduct a participatory action project differences opinion we encountered regarding underage youth's capability make...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay the foundations for supporting global health and international development work next 15 years. Thirty years ago, Ottawa Charter defined promotion outlined key principles action on health, including importance of advocating, enabling mediating equity. Advocacy underscores a human right to suggests political support its attainment. Enabling speaks promotion's focus empowerment people communities take control over their aspirations. Mediation draws...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and effects children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding views related restrictions their provides an important opportunity to understand responded pandemic, including social emotional well-being.This study explored experiences perspectives of in relation life.A qualitative using semistructured online interviews with participatory drawings was...

Policy and practice on sex relationships education (SRE) in England often has the stated objectives of delaying sexual activity, reducing sexually transmitted infections lowering rates teenage conception. Underlying these is desire to support young people making 'informed choices' developing skills that will enable them negotiate positive relationships. The concept informed choice linked 'empowerment', which implies a less determined set outcomes. Not only does current SRE policy present...

In recent times, empowerment has become the focus of much work with young people amidst increasing concerns about their health. Empowerment is often offered as a ‘solution’ to such concerns, uncritical assumption being made that unproblematically results in positive health outcomes. While promotion literature advocates ‘empowerment’, it does so without offering clear conceptualisation word itself or indeed addressing thorny theoretical tensions surrounding concept’s root power. light this...

Concepts of power and agency have become increasingly prominent in the youth studies literatures related research. A focus research to date has been an examination how a better understanding young people's lived experiences can reveal possibilities for emerge. Despite increased interest term agency, much less said about concept is defined recognized with people, including what may entail but crucially, linked underpinned by power. This paper seeks contribute our as utilized people. The...

Objective: Increasing numbers of young people live with a chronic health condition. Much research to date has explored people’s self-management their illness and related symptomatology. Relatively less is known about how manage long-term condition in everyday social contexts. This paper reports on findings from qualitative study examining the perspectives university students condition, including they negotiate (and experiences ill health) while at university. Design: A interview was...

Abstract Concern about health-related risks dominates modern day public health discourses on young people's health. Based ‘official’ notions of health, the risk-based approach not only downplays potentially different meanings people attach to concepts but it also has a tendency problematise and pathologise their Drawing findings from an ethnographic study with aged 15–16 years in England (n = 55); this article, I examine understandings risks. used group discussions, individual interviews...

Purpose Research to date has identified young people's perspectives on a number of health‐related topics such as smoking, alcohol, sexual health, physical activity and healthy eating. Whilst this body research draws important attention towards views topical health concerns, it arguably remains located within pre‐defined agenda; thereby marginalising own, potentially different, frames reference when discussing health. In light omission, the aim paper is examine own understandings in line with...

Providing children and adults with opportunities to engage in manageable risk taking may be a stepping stone toward closing the gap life conditions currently experienced by young people disabilities. We aim demonstrate effectiveness of simple, innovative program for 1) changing way parents teachers view risk-taking disabilities 2) increasing level responsibility that take their own actions, as seen on school playground. will employ cluster repeated measures trial six Sydney-area...

Children with disabilities often experience unsupportive environments that restrict their play opportunities and inclusion on the school playground. This exclusion can perpetuate inequities for children disabilities, lifelong implications. The Sydney Playground Project uses a simple, innovative intervention consisting of placing recycled materials playground engaging parents educators in risk reframing sessions to create increased choice, control, independence all children.The purpose this...

Recent theoretical debates highlight the competing risk logics and varying rationalities mobilised in response to dangers approaches management. Yet concept of uncertainty, how it informs perceived risks, is relatively less well understood. Debates this kind are illuminated contexts where risks managed as part everyday practice. The school setting provides an example a context which continuously negotiated amidst dominant protectionist concerns about children's well-being safety. Such...

Research on migration and health is gaining significant ground, with a focus the adverse physical mental outcomes experienced by migrants. The health-related experiences of children young people who migrate, however, are relatively absent, children’s status often conflated that their parents. omission own perspectives limits knowledge about how understood child migrants, including identification best ways to support health. Drawing empirical literature migrants from World Health...

The policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition government's ‘Troubled Families’ initiative, and that New Labour's earlier Respect Agenda, share an emphasis on families’ responsibilities, or rather their irresponsibility, financial costs to society. Giving children a chance better life coincides, in this framing, with reducing for taxpayer. research reported here was based national study Family Intervention Projects (FIPs), funded by government between 2009 2012, beginning under Labour, continuing...

Risky play is challenging, exciting with the possibility of physical, social, or emotional harm. Through risky play, children learn, develop, and experience wellbeing. Children disabilities have fewer opportunities than their typically developing peers to engage in this beneficial type play. Our team designed a novel, school-based intervention address disparity; however, our yielded unexpected quantitative results. In present study, we qualitatively examined divergent results at two five...

Concepts of choice are often drawn upon within sexual health promotion discourses to encourage young people take “responsibility” for and promote their own reproductive control. A systematic literature search using predefined inclusion criteria identified peer-reviewed articles focusing on interventions people. Discourse analysis was used interrogate how concepts were articulated or inferred the interventions. Of eligible studies ( n = 30), 16 based theories behavioral change, suggesting a...

Purpose Children’s health and life chances are affected by many factors, with parents schools holding influential roles. Yet relatively little is known about parental engagement in school-based education specifically, from the perspectives of professionals. The purpose this paper to examine professionals’ on education. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory qualitative study was conducted ten health, local authority professionals a socio-economically deprived area England....

Becoming an autonomous adult includes understanding consequences associated with risks. The aim of this study was to compare parents children and without disability identify any differences in promoting manageable risk-taking. Data were collected from typically developing developmental disability. Two groups matched based on parent child chronological ages for These completed the Tolerance Risk Play Scale, a 16-item measure activities adults allow their participate in. total number tolerated...