Children already know what makes a school unsafe. Almost no programme is built to ask them properly.
Participation is the most claimed and least practised commitment in child protection. Consultation usually means asking children to validate a decision that adults have already taken, in language adults chose, on a timetable adults set.
Kate works the other way round: children as researchers rather than respondents, generating the evidence that shapes what happens next. That demands real methodological care, because research with children carries ethical risk that a consent form does not resolve.
What the work has shown
Where Kate is commissioned
Participatory and appreciative action research, child-led enquiry, and ethical review of research involving children.
