Holiday, childcare and food programme - summer 2022: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

6. How have you consulted with relevant stakeholders, including involving children and young people in the development of the policy/measure?

When planning and delivering summer holiday provision, all Local Authorities and delivery partners are expected to ensure that services are inclusive, accessible and responsive to local needs across different language mediums, in collaboration with Local Child Poverty leads where practicable to align strategic approaches. Partners should also work together to agree how activities and services can be delivered in remote or rural areas, where the range of existing provision might be more limited and geographic barriers to access services may be considerable.

Guidance covering 2022 summer holiday provision has been developed in line with key findings of the Evaluation research report for last year's Get into Summer 2021 Programme, published in February 2022. The evaluation included qualitative in-depth interviews with children, young people and families who took part in Get into Summer activities in the 2021 school summer holidays to understand what worked for them and what could be improved. It also consulted local authorities and their delivery partners and national organisations who were involved in planning and delivering activities. While it would have been even more beneficial to gain further feedback from children during the planning of the Summer 2022 offer, due to time constraints this wasn't possible.