SVSYF is committed to engaging with young people in the City of Sunderland to get their views on a range of topics and issues.
In October 2010 we produced an Ethical Code of Practice - research, consultation and engagement with young people - you are welcome to adapt and adopt this for your own work if you think its useful.
This year we have been busy consulting with young people on a variety of subjects including; Housing allocations and lettings, Privacy and consent on-line, knife crime, Anti-social behaviour, Safety and youth provision in Silksworth.
We have used a variety of techniques including group work, focus groups, questionnaires, MI-Voice on-line surveys and e-voting. We also consult with young people in an ethical way and have produced a code of conduct that you are welcome to adopt and modify for use in your own projects.
Consultations that took place before 2012 can be found in the archive.
If you would like us to undertake some consultation work or research with young people please don't hesitate to get in touch with us by contacting
Tracey Morgan on (0191) 5655144.
To see all our recent consultations in more detail please go to the dedicated Consultation pages (click on the links below).
Consultation Title |
Date |
In partnership with |
Brief Summary |
Downloads |
Other Comments |
| YAP Health Sessions |
April - September 2011 |
Youth Almighty Project |
25 young people (12 male, 13 female) took part in themed youth work sessions. Each young person completed a before and after ‘health wheel’ to record their journey of learning. These health wheels have been recorded to provide an accurate account of individual and group learning. |
Report |
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| Youth work in a Digital Age. |
June 2011 |
VOME |
This report has been compiled using the results of this data and has helped influence some of the work undertaken by SVSYF when organising the North East’s first ever conference regarding digital media ‘Youth Work in a Digital Age’, held at Sunderland University on 14th July 2011. |
Report |
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| Detached youth workers consultation |
August 2011 |
Youth Almighty Project |
Detached youth workers collated responses from young people who they encountered during various detached sessions across the summer, who weren’t previously known to access any YAP sessions. They concentrated on gathering responses from the Silksworth area only. During June and July 2011 the workers collected 36 responses. |
Report |
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| Young Peoples Voices |
September 2011 |
Youth Almighty Project |
The consultation was carried out with a mixture of young people who attend junior sessions, youth club at the Community Centre and in the Youth Café. Young people were asked for their views by completing a paper questionnaire. Focus group sessions were facilitated by youth work staff and carried out with junior groups consisting of 4 groups of up to 10 participants, other participants completed the questionnaires anonymously and handed these in to staff. |
Report |
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| So you want to consult with young people? |
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Save the children |
If you would like to involve children in discussions about issues that affect them but don’t know how to do it, then we hope that this toolkit will provide you with a lot of useful material for getting started. If you’ve already begun to involve children in policy or other discussions, we hope that you may find some useful ideas here to help you take this work forward. |
Toolkit |
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