Ethical Methods in Children and Young People

Heath, Sue and others wrote in their paper that one researcher should need consent from their research participants. If any researcher do his research without consent it is one kind of crime in developed country like the U.K. Moreover they again mentioned that on research which sought to identify contemporary practice in this area amongst researchers working in the fields  where research participants are often constructed as vulnerable within the research process, and where their potential involvement tends to be mediated by institutional gatekeepers.drawing on telephone interview and focus group data they focuses specifically on the experiences of researchers working with children and young people.Their study highlights the tensions experienced by many researchers between a personal commitment to an ethical framework which seeks to prioritise the agency and competency of children and young people, and the conditions imposed upon them by working within institutional settings where these principles may be undermined. On the other hand they suggested that the consent practices of child and youth-oriented institutions, however much frowned upon, tend to go largely unchallenged by researchers , to the detriment of rights of children and young people to opt in and out of research on their own behalf. In the University of Toronto, research ethics are also strictly maintained. According to research ethics of U of T, one researcher need to take permission to take interview from other area except Toronto. One can not take interview of the person under 18. So it is mandatory for the researcher. My question is if any researcher do not follow this ethics what will affect him .