Social Research With Children and Young People by Louca-Mai Brady & Berni Graham

Author:Louca-Mai Brady & Berni Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447351153
Publisher: Policy Press

TOP TIPS: MINIMISING HARM AND PROVIDING BENEFIT

• Conduct a simple but comprehensive risk assessment during research planning.

• Discuss plans with others more experienced in working with younger age-groups.

• Recognise the diversity within the group.

• Agree a safeguarding policy and process with partner agencies and all fieldworkers.

• Consider what benefits participants could get from the research without creating or aggravating bias.

Informed consent

This fundamental principle deserves additional consideration when the research or evaluation includes children and young people, partly because of potential questions around their capacity to appreciate potential consequences and thus their ability to give valid consent, as well as the common need to work with gatekeepers. Different methodologies generate distinct dilemmas and implications for the consent process. Here the main parameters around valid consent when working with children and young people are set out separately, although in real life they are interconnected.

This section covers:

• autonomy

• capacity, age, cognitive ability and competence to consent

• working with gatekeepers

• opting in and opting out

• information requirements

• recording consent

• timing of seeking consent

• specific consent considerations when using different research methods

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