Origins
The idea, and our name, came from children attending a European environmental education project in Scotland.
Children spent a week together discussing, planning and building a scale model of their vision of an environmentally friendly city of the future. At the centre of their city the children placed a children's parliament building. Their view was that children needed to be able to come together to talk about what mattered to them.
The children identified that adults needed to understand that children's views are important and worth listening to. For the children the word parliament meant a place to talk and to listen.
Meeting in the environment of a parliament signified the importance of what children had to say.