IFGA26 Categories > Safety & Inclusiveness
Safety & Inclusiveness
Working on a project addressing safety, access or inclusion in place?
This category is likely a good fit.
This category focuses on how children and young people shape how safe, accessible and inclusive places are.
It includes work where their input influences:
how risks are understood
how spaces are accessed
how inclusion is designed or applied
The key is removing barriers and improving equity in place.
What this includes
Input shaping inclusive design or access
Contributions addressing safety or risk
Work improving fairness, accessibility or usability
Changes to how places are experienced by different groups
What counts
Evidence of improved safety or inclusion
Changes to access, design or approach
Outcomes reducing barriers in place
This doesn’t include
General wellbeing work without inclusion focus
Awareness without changes to practice
Participation without impact on access or safety
If your work spans multiple areas, choose the category that best reflects what changed.
Examples of strong submissions
These illustrate how children and young people have shaped how place is used, expressed or understood in the present.
Young people’s input led to changes in how a place is represented or presented, reflecting local identity.
Contributions influenced how stories are expressed or experienced within a space.
Young people’s ideas shaped how culture is expressed, influencing use or programming.
Input informed how creative work is integrated into a place.
Projects where cultural activity led to changes in how a place is perceived or used today.