Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months ago, I released my recent book Children’s Participation in the Context of Inequalities: Confronting Children’s Agency, Social Positioning and Power Disparities. In this work, I examine how inequalities and social identities influence the operationalisation of children’s and young people’s participation rights. Children’s social positioning remains subordinated to multiple systems of domination, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and intergenerational power relations.

Reading Time: 3 minutesChildren’s participation is particularly testing to our adult attitudes, systems and ways of working. This is true in everyday practices – whether in family homes, early year settings and schools, or community spaces – and even more so when addressing power in national policy-making.