Child Participation Assessment Tool

Summary

The aim of the Council of Europe Child Participation Assessment Tool is to support states in meeting the goals of the Recommendation on participation of children and young people under the age of 18. The Assessment Tool offers a method, at the European level, of facilitating and supporting the implementation of the child’s right to participate.

The Assessment Tool provides 10 basic indicators enabling states to:

• undertake a baseline assessment of current implementation of the recommendation;
• help identify measures needed to achieve further compliance by states;
• measure progress over time.

The Assessment Tool can be used across government ministries, throughout local authority administrations, with the courts and judicial systems, with relevant professionals working with children, with academic and civil society partners, and with organisations of children and young people.

An implementation guide accompanying this assessment tool is available online here.