The Lundy Model

The Lundy Model is a way of understanding how to involve children meaningfully in decision-making. It is grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, interpreting Article 12 with other relevant rights such as the child’s right to seek, receive and impart information (Article 13) and to be protected from all forms of harm (Article 19). It was published as an academic article in 2007 in the British Educational Research Journal. From 2012, Laura worked with the Irish government to adapt this approach for its national strategy on child and youth participation, creating a checklist to be used by policy-makers and practitioners. They insisted on calling it the “Lundy Model” (in spite of Laura arguing that they shouldn’t) but that stuck and the Lundy Model is how it is now widely known.