Law in Children’s Lives: Speaking Up

What would you do?

In Adventures with Lex we created a scene in the game where the park was broken, and Lex asked children what they would do about it.

What did they say?

A small number of children (8.5%) said they would contact the council themselves if the park was broken.  Most said would tell their parents or ask an adult to sort out.

A few children said that they would do nothing because no one would listen to them.

Here are some of their reasons:

“Because a child can’t contact the council.” (Girl, Year 4)

“Because the council might not believe you and you might be a bit young to do it.” (Girl, Year 5)

“Because the adult won’t be telling a lie, and the council might be thinking that the children might be lying.” (Girl, Year 4)