Breaking down barriers to meaningful participation
During Covid, our community has found new and creative ways to interact with the children and young people for whom they offer care and support.
Included And Safe
A year ago we started to think about our users, exploring ways we could use the apps to make young people feel safer and more included.
Children’s participation in court decisions
I am a social worker in a safeguarding team in the north west of England and would like to share my recent experiences of how Mind Of My Own apps have supported my practice and made for much stronger...
Participation, so what?
What does young people's participation really mean? When we have heard the voice of the child, "So what?"
Happy Hogmanay! Mind Of My Own in Scotland
As the Year of Young People 2018 has drawn to a close it's good to remember that young people's voices have been at the heart of the Year, since planning started in 2015.
Co-production and participation – alive and kicking
I have been reading recently that the ‘old’ ways of co-production and participation don’t work in the tech environment and they should be replaced with user centred design and design thinking. I have to disagree.