Children and Young People’s Rights: Formal and Informal Constructions of Citizenship, 2020-2023

This project undertook a international comparison of the civic expansion of children’s rights in four Western countries (including Wales), and explored how this can rebalance the civic deficits associated with childhood. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Child Friendly practitioners in nine different cities in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America about the design and implementation of the UNICEF child friendly cities initiative and how it connects to other local authority initiatives. A questionnaire survey was also conducted across a sample of schools in Wales. As this survey was undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic, questions and responses provide a snapshot of the experiences of young people in Wales at this time. This survey also forms Sweep 8 of WISERD's Multi-Cohort Study (WMCS), a longitudinal study of young people in Wales which commenced in 2013.