What we do

We involve disabled children and young people directly in our work so that we represent the views of disabled children and respond to what they tell us.

• Disabled young people are members of our Partnership Board.  They influence how CDC runs and what work we do. One of our young Partnership Board members is the Vice Chair of CDC.

• We work with a number of disabled young consultants, who work with us on specific pieces of work, for example creating publications or speaking at events

• We regularly speak to disabled children and young people about the issues that are important to them. We do this so that we know about the issues that are important to disabled young people and so that the work we do is good quality.

• 9 disabled young people work with us as Young Ambassadors. They work on a project to make sure people who work with disabled young people involve them in decisions and treat disabled young people as individuals.

• We often speak to disabled children and young people on behalf of other organisations who we work in partnership with. This means their views have been central to a number of high profile projects and campaigns.