Children's rights | Kirklees Council

The Children's Rights Team make sure that you have opportunities to say what you think and have your views taken seriously when decisions are made about you, your life and your future.

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The Children's Rights Easter Challenge

Your views are being sought to help better delivery of services. An entry will be selected at random to receive the prize of a £20 high street voucher. Personal information from the entries will be stored for 12 months on Kirklees Council secure IT system and will then be deleted. We need your personal information for the purpose of contacting the winner and service monitoring, this will not be shared with anyone else. We will only share your views on the services with managers and / or other Council services to highlight the voice of the child or promote the work of the Children's Rights Service. Any entries used for these purposes will not include any personal information. If you would like to know more about how we manage your information, please see how we use your data.

Pick the activity from below which you would like to take part in, you could even take part in both! Good luck!

The Great Children's Rights Egg Drop Challenge - Dare you take the egg drop challenge? Your challenge, is to drop a raw egg from 1 meter without it breaking. Look around your house and gather anything that could work to protect the egg in flight. You might want to consider: newspaper, bubble wrap, fabric, tissue paper, toilet roll, wool, plastic packaging, cardboard... Email a photo of your design and a photo of the egg after it has been dropped. The winner will be chosen based on the design and whether your egg survives!!

The Great Children's Rights Bake off - Fancy yourself as Star Baker? Your challenge is to create Easter themed buns or an Easter themed cake. Email a photo of your delicious creation and the winner will be chosen based on your design.

Send your entries to childrenrightschallenge@kirklees.gov.uk by 16th April 2021. Don't forget to include your name and age.

We will choose a winner from each category to win a £20 High Street Voucher which we will send you in the post.

What we do

Advocacy

An advocate is a person who can make sure that your wishes and feelings are heard, this can be done by:

Supporting you at your review
Meeting you and listening to you
Helping you to make a complaint if you are not happy about something or a compliment if you are really happy about something
Giving you information and advice about your rights

If you are in the care of Kirklees Council then you have a legal right to an advocate!

If you would like to talk to an advocate then please contact us or complete the online form below and we will get in touch with you. You could always ask someone else to do it for you.

Other things that the Children's Rights Team do

Children in Care Council (12-15 year olds) or Care Leavers' Forum (16-21 year olds)

You could join a group twice a month and meet up with other young people in care in Kirklees to have your say about services for young people in care or those who are preparing to leave care and help to improve them.

The Children in Care Council (aged 12-15) and the Care Leavers' Forum (aged 16-21 or 25 if in higher education) are ways in which children and young people who are looked after in Kirklees Council can have a say about things that really matter and affect your lives.

Find out more about the Children in Care Council and Care Leaver's Forum.