Children's Voices - Are We Listening?

A series of free public lectures entitled Children’s Voices: Are We Listening? is being held at Edge Hill University during 2008.

The series will highlight the ongoing work being undertaken by academics, children’s rights activists and policymakers to allow the views and perspectives of young people themselves to impact on how they are treated and understood. The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child and Labour’s 10 year plan for children are looked at during the series.

The first lecture, Listening to the Voice of the Young Child will be delivered by Lucy Williams, Project Manager for the national pilot programme Young Children's Voices Network, at 6pm on 21 February 2008.

Each lecture evening will begin with drinks at 5pm, followed at 6pm by the lecture. At 7.15pm light refreshments will be served. To book a free place please contact Vicki Coppock on 01695 58 4430 or email coppockv@edgehill.ac.uk.

• Thursday 21 February 2008 - Lucy Williams - ‘Listening to the Voice of the Young Child’
• Thursday 6 March 2008 - Sam Dimmock and Young People from the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) - ‘Get Ready for Geneva’
• Thursday 3 April 2008 - Harry Hendrick - ‘Children’s Voices in the Disciplinary State: Rhetoric, Control and Self-Governance’
• Thursday 24 April 2008 - Professor Priscilla Alderson ‘New Labour’s 2020 goals: “World class ambitions for all children”?’

For further information on all the lectures in this series, visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/childrensvoices.