Gerison lansdown biography
Gerison Lansdown was the founder director of the Children's Rights Alliance for England, and is now an international children's rights consultant and advocate.!
Gerison Lansdown was the founder director, , of the Children's Rights Alliance for England, and has since worked as an international.
Gerison Lansdown on child-friendly governance and democracy
Gerison Lansdown, one of the leading thinkers around child rights, shares what brought her to work on child participation, and why she thinks child-friendly governance is central to the future of democracy.
From social worker to international expert
Few people have contributed to the conceptual thinking around child participation as much as Gerison Lansdown has.
She has lectured, written, and studied participation across different contexts since the late 1980s. During her career, she has contributed to several General Comments, impacted on the conceptual thinking around child participation across a range of international child rights organizations, and, of course, worked with hundreds of children and young people.
Originally trained as a social worker, Lansdown came to work with child participation when England and Wales introduced new legislation requiring the establishment of complaints