The INGO Children’s Participation Forum
The INGO Children’s Participation Forum meets in London three times a year. It is organised by Child to Child, with experts from other organisations being part of the Steering Group.

Who are we?
We are an emerging network of practitioners and academics working together to improve the quality of child participation practice in order to enhance outcomes for children.
What do we do?
- Identify issues of concern and gaps in practice
- Identify training and development needs
- Share learning and expertise
- Promote collaboration
- Advocate for children’s participation
How to connect with us?
Come to our meetings! You can also engage in our conversations on the INGO Children’s Participation Forum LinkedIn Group or contact us on ParticipationForum@ioe.ac.uk
To read more about what we learned and explored at some of the previous Forum meetings, click on the following links:
November 2013: Professor Priscilla Anderson, Dr. Vicky Johnson and Gerison Lansdown, three leading children’s rights experts, unpacked the concept of participation and helped the Forum to reach a shared understanding and definition.
May 2014: Dr Vicky Johnson and Karen Baker, facilitated a workshop to introduce the Children and Young People’s Participation (CYPP) Training Workshop Guide, recently published by ChildHope, which they co-authored.
December 2015: the Forum members discussed how to do research with small children, before listening to Annania Admassu from CHADET and his experience working on girls’ migration in Ethiopia.