CWDC share their thoughts on Hear by Right
Submitted by alexf on Tue, 2009-03-24 16:36.
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is the next in our series of showcased organisations looking at the challenges and successes of using Hear by Right as a tool for organisational change. Our series has already included Gateshead Council and Catch 22 and both their stories are shared in Rainer and Gateshead share their success.
The online version can be found in CWDC Case Study and the full version is available for download at the bottom of the page.
Alex Brookes, who led the Hear by Right process at CWDC, found the ensuring everyone understood the standards was crucial,
"At first staff didn’t really know what ‘Hear by Right’ meant. When we talked about it internally I’d say ‘increasing our potential for participation’ and that Hear by Right was all these different things that will create the conditions to do more positive work with children and young people. To the people that understand it makes sense, but this was an initial barrier we had to overcome."
Another challenge was adapting the indiciators to meet the needs of the organisation,
"Some of it we’ve found challenging because of our non-direct work with young people. In Structures, indicator 3.6 - “Children and young people have effective representation on local cross-agency partnerships that affect them” - was the indicator identified as our priority. But first we had to decide what we meant by ‘local cross agency’ because that doesn’t work for us - it needed a bit of translation before it was appropriate to us."
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