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A new study shows participating in a citizens' panel can help young people with special educational needs/disabilities to produce new policy ideas about school inclusion. The study is published in the journal Frontiers in Education.

The first study of its kind also provides evidence of how public dialogue processes, which also include citizens' assemblies and citizens' juries, can be successfully modified to ensure young people at risk of marginalization can fully participate in important discussions about the policies that affect their lives.

Experts first worked with six young people with SEN/D and their parents/caregivers to shape how the citizens' panel should work.

A total of 28 people then took part in the citizens' panel—the six young people plus four young people without SEN/D, 13 parents/caregivers, and five education professionals.

Working together, the panel produced distinctive ideas about how to make schools more inclusive schools for everyone.

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