A statement on practicing accountability to young people, right now

This report has been created, strengthened, shaped, grown, and made real by hundreds of young people connected to the Accountable Futures Collective. When you learn from and share these ideas, materials and/or learning resources, please also share that your insight has come from young people. Stating that these lessons come from young people positions young people as the knowledge holders and educators they truthfully are. 

Legally, we are sharing these ideas and resources with you under Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. 

This means you can: 

• -Reuse, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

• -Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose

But you NEED TO:

• -Credit ‘young people connected to Accountable Futures Collective’ as the creators and ideally include our logo

• -Indicate any changes that you made

While these are your legal rights, we’re also asking you to go a step further than legal compliance and honour the work young people are leading. 

If you do adapt anything, we ask that you do not simplify or dilute young people’s ideas. We ask that you include a clear link to the original document, so others can see how and why changes have been made. 

Another way to practice accountability is by sharing your reflections and ideas back with us. Young people who are leading this work are curious and deserve to understand how their ideas are sparking action and change.

You can share your learnings and reflections by emailing us (hello@accountablefutures.org.au) or via THIS LINK. By doing this, you’ll be practicing accountability to young people in a small way, and helping to grow collective impact towards systems change.