Listen to Our Voices, Hearing Children and Young People living in the Care of the State:
Published 2011
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Contributors
Author: Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Date: 2011
Geographic Coverage: Ireland
Type of Resource: Research (Non-Governmental Organisation)
Sector/setting: Government
Vulnerable groups: Children in care settings
Developed with children and young people? Yes
Type of participation: Consultation with children (e.g. surveys, consultative events or workshops)
Availability: Open Access
Keywords: Care, Children, Views, Young People
Introduction
During 2010, the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (OMCYA) conducted a consultation process with children living in the care of the State. The project was called Listen to our voices! Hearing children and young people living in the care of the State.
In the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (2009), Justice Ryan recommends that ‘children in care should be able to communicate without fear’. The Government’s Implementation Plan, brought out in response to the recommendations in the Ryan Report, committed the OMCYA to conducting a consultation process with children in the care of the State and to publishing the findings.
The objectives of the consultation process were to seek the views of children and young people in the care of the State, in detention and in residential services for children with a disability on the issues that matter to them, to explore existing mechanisms for children and young people to express their views and to make recommendations on future structures to be established for children and young people’s voices to be heard.