The Partnership

Over the past five to ten years The National Youth Agency and Investing in Children have been exploring ways to promote the human rights of children and young people so that they are better able to fulfil their potential.  Both agencies have focused on working with children and young people as active partners in this process.  Both agencies have located their work within the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  And both agencies have sought specifically to assert the right of children and young people to be active participants in dialogue about decisions that effect them (article 12 of the UNCRC - United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) and to develop strategies and processes to make this a reality.

It has been (and continues to be) the objective of both agencies to achieve change and improvement in the lives of children and young people, by promoting their human rights in this way. 

The NYA and IiC are in partnership to offer interested public service and voluntary service bodies the opportunity of using Hear by Right and Investing in Children development strategy (including the Investing in Children Membership Scheme). By agreeing to bring the two programmes together, The NYA and IiC are seeking to create a more powerful and comprehensive tool that will harness the power of the organisational change model of Hear by Right and the crucial test of seeking the endorsement  or otherwise of children and young people themselves that it has made a real difference to their lives.