Supporting young people to change our world.

At A Place in Childhood, we help you to involve young people in your projects and create better designed places and practices led by their input. Discover our work, learn new insights and reach out to see how we can help you with your next project.

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Change-focused with community purpose

APiC bridges the gap between rigorous research, project delivery and the unique insights of children and young people.

What we do

Include the voices of children and young people in your projects

Build capacity and reduce the attainment gap

Create child-friendly policy, services and environments that work for everyone

Some of the services we offer

Co-production & Participation

Get in-depth knowledge across planning, housing, children’s rights, sustainability and education.

Research, Insights & Evaluation

Involve children in creating child-friendly spaces.

Expert Consultancy & Practice

Find out the real views of children and young people about the spaces around them.

Providing cutting-edge insights

Youth-Led Innovation on Scotland’s National Alcohol and Drugs Services Audit

We’re thrilled to share this short film, co-created and co-produced by the Audit Scotland Youth Advisory Panel! We facilitate the panel, and this inspiring video captures their vital contributions to shaping and celebrating the 2024 National Alcohol and Drugs Services Audit.

Teenagers call for joined-up action on Anti-Social Behaviour in their Communities

Today we publish a new research report on Teenagers and Public Space. This lays our teenager’s views on how to tackle anti-social behaviour from their perspective, and improve places so that they meet the needs of young people.

Exploring Urban Design with Young People Through Cities: Skylines. Part 2: What Makes a 20-Minute Neighbourhood?

In December 2022, we worked with Sustrans Scotland and the Edinburgh & Lothians Developing Young Workforce team to deliver a session on urban design at Tynecastle High School. This second blog in a two part series explores outputs from the session where we used the game Cities: Skylines.

Exploring Urban Design with Young People Through Cities: Skylines. Part 1: Why and How

In December 2022, we worked with Sustrans Scotland and the Edinburgh & Lothians Developing Young Workforce team to deliver a session on urban design at Tynecastle High School. This first blog in a two part series explores how and why we used the game Cities: Skylines.

We’re Supporting the CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S MANIFESTO: Will you?

Today we launch The Children and Young People’s Manifesto Scotland with our Young Consultants from #ScotYouthandCOVID3. Will you help them get the word out and involve as many children and young people across the country as possible?

Our latest projects

COVID-19 research

A Place in Childood designed and ran a research project with 25 young Scots to understand their hopes, fears and challenges during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In July 2020, we published wave 1 findings and in July 2021 we published wave 2 findings. These incluse recommendations for participation, education and wellbeing, directly from young people.

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Child Friendly Planning

The Royal Town Planning Institute commissioned APiC to lead on a research report assessing the child-friendliness of planning policy across the UK. We launched this report at the ‘Toward the Child-Friendly City’ international conference in November 2019.

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Playful Pedagogy toolkit

A Place in Childhood worked with Play Scotland to develop a new toolkit for outdoor learning. A unique resource for schools, it helps teachers to integrate children’s play experiences with curricular learning to encourage autonomy and self-reflection.

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Supporting young people to change our world.

Change-focused with community purpose

APiC bridges the gap between rigorous research, project delivery and the unique insights of children and young people.

What we do

Some of the services we offer

Providing cutting-edge insights

Our latest projects

We’ve worked with some great people