In collaboration with partners, Sheffield City Council leads an annual consultation with children and young people in the city. 

 

The 2007 process consulted through questionnaires with approximately 5,000 children and young people aged 0-19+; 54 schools were involved; focus groups were held with one vulnerable group (homeless children); and following the analysis, children and young people will identify a couple of priorities to further examine the reasons behind certain findings and with service providers develop solutions to the issues raised. 

 

The consultation is based around the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes:

 

 

Feedback will be given through newsletters and presentations to providers to ensure that the findings from the consultation are widely disseminated throughout the city.  This will help the views of children and young people to feed into the planning, delivery and evaluation of services across the city. 

 

The findings from the consultation can be found in the reports below.  These include:

 

 

Should you require further information categories e.g. by geographical area, by ethnicity, by SEN, by issue, this can be can be requested from Kerry Jones at kerry.jones@sheffield.gov.uk on 0114 203 9670, or Boyd Livingstone at boyd.livingstone@sheffield.gov.uk or on 0114 273 6116