Welsh children’s views on government and participation

Drakeford, Mark, Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158, Holland, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3855 and Davies, Andrew 2009. Welsh children’s views on government and participation. Childhood 16 (2) , pp. 247-264. 10.1177/0907568209104404

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Abstract

Qualitative research from Wales sought to explore aspects of children's views on government and participation. The research project was conducted in 2001 with 105 children aged 8—11 from a diverse sample of schools across Wales. The article first reports the children's perspectives on different levels (and places) of government: the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Second, there is discussion of how the children see government as affecting their lives. The third section of the article presents the children's views on the extent to which they should have a say in local and national political decisions, the examples being the building of a new road in their community and going to war. The children, while declaring a lack of interest in politics in general, in fact engaged enthusiastically in discussion of specific issues that they saw affecting their lives. There was a general expectation that they should be consulted on issues that affect them directly and they saw the potential for their views to be fed into decision-making via intermediaries. Very few, however, expected their own views to be decisive, but rather most believed that their views ought to be considered alongside others.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Uncontrolled Keywords:	children; citizenship; participation; Wales
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0907-5682
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 10:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25042

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