ABSTRACT
Drawing on the histories of practice and institutional knowledge of StreetInvest and Glad’s House, and the authors’ experiences of conducting academic and/or practice-based research with street-connected young people in multiple country contexts, this chapter examines the opportunities and challenges inherent to young people’s participation in policy and advocacy spaces. We critically explore the often gendered politics and moralities of young people’s agency in relation to practice-based approaches that support young people’s ability to exercise agency in relation to policy issues that affect them. As such, we justify the need for young person-led approaches to meaningful participation that are appropriately scaffolded by organisations that claim to support their access to civic spaces.
