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Children and Young People's voice

The CYSCP language pledge

On Thursday 18 July 2024, the City of York Safeguarding Children Partnership held their annual Development Day with senior leaders from their partner agencies.

Young people also attended and delivered a powerful presentation on the impact of language when working with children and young people.

Following this, the partnership committed to creating a multi-agency language pledge.

The Voice and Involvement Sub-Group has since prioritised this effort, developing the pledge in line with the feedback given by young people at the development day. We encourage all our partners to adopt this pledge and bring it forward for discussion in your meetings.

Read our language pledge.