Our Plymouth Young Safeguarders have been busy reminding professionals of their Ten Wishes and what they need from all of us to help keep them safe and feel valued.
They want us to know that the Ten Wishes are just as relevant as they were when they developed them in 2014 but felt they didn’t seem to be consistently followed across all workers and agencies.
The young people said;
‘The overwhelming feeling amongst young people is that the Ten Wishes are even more relevant now than before COVID19 became a part of our lives. We want to ensure that the Ten Wishes stay relevant during the ‘new normal’ and are not increasingly or gradually side lined or even forgotten by their lack of specific reference to COVID19 and how it has effected professional practice.’
So they’ve produced a booklet called ‘The Why and How’ which sets out why the wishes are important to children and young people and how we can all as individual professionals and organisations put their wishes into practice.
Please take a look at the booklet and see how you can start making a difference and act on the wishes of our children and young people…it’s really important to them.
Ten Wishes Poster
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More InformationPlymouth 10 Wishes Charter
Plymouth Young Safeguarders have been busy reminding professionals of their Ten Wishes and what they need from all of us to help keep them safe and feel valued.
To support this and to further promote the Ten Wishes it was agreed that a Ten Wishes Charter would be created for all organisations to sign up to. This would ensure commitment to the wishes and encourage individual organisations to take responsibility for them across their practice and settings.
Signing the Charter demonstrates commitment to meeting the Ten Wishes through all work, behaviours, and actions. This can be done through embedding in training, polices, procedures and quality assurance work.
Young people produced a Ten Wishes film and booklet called ‘The Why and How’ which sets out why the wishes are important to children and young people and how we can all as individual professionals and organisations put their wishes into practice.
Please take a look and see how you can start making a difference and act on the wishes of our children and young people…it’s really important to them.
It would be great to have photos on the signed charters being displayed in your setting sent to participation.youth@plymouth.gov.uk, so we can create a ‘Ten Wishes Charter Collage’ to take back to young people to demonstrate all of Plymouth’s commitment to meet their Ten Wishes.
