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VIPER is a three-year project, which started in summer 2010, and set out to explore disabled children and young people’s participation in decision-making about services.
The VIPER project is delivered in partnership by the Alliance for Inclusive Education, The Children’s Society, the Council for Disabled Children and the National Children’s Bureau Research Centre. The project is part of the Big Lottery Fund research programme. A group of 16 young disabled people work with us as joint researchers on this project.
There is no one agreed definition of participation. In this project, we were specifically researching disabled young people’s participation in decisions about service development and delivery. We also mean that participation is a process where groups or individuals can influence decision-making and bring about change.
A key feature of this project is that as well as researching participation it is a participation project itself as we used a wide range of methods to ensure the Vipers were fully included in the different stages of the research and played a central role.
This project also works within the social model of disability, which recognises that people with impairments are disabled by barriers in society.
The aims of the project are:
- to map how young disabled people are involved in strategic and operational decisions by services
- to understand the barriers, impacts and benefits of young disabled people’s participation
- to understand what works for young disabled people’s participation
- to produce resources to help professionals support young disabled people’s participation.
Published : 19th February 2013
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