Participation

Special feature

The Flemish Community has youth councils at every level of policymaking. These councils bring together youth organisations and young people to provide advice on policy matters. The Flemish Youth Council also regularly organises participation projects and ad hoc youth surveys to better understand young people’s views on specific topics.

Highlights

The Youth and Children's Rigths policy plan focuses on policy participation. It is about what is very close to the hearts of children and young people, but most definitely also about themes in all policy areas affecting them. The Flemish Government wants to help create preconditions which will make a permanent participatory attitude the logical standard.