Healthy Lifestyles – Have your say. A report of consultations with children and young people:
A report of the results of a national consultation of children and young people conducted by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of Health to help inform the development of the new national strategy to combat obesity.
Recorded 21st July 2016
Contributors
Author: Shirley Martin, Deirdre Horgan, Margaret Scanlon
Publisher: Government Publications
Date: 2016
Geographic Coverage: National
Type of Resource: Report
Sector/setting: Health
Vulnerable groups: Children
Developed with children and young people? Yes
Type of participation: Consultation
Availability: Open Access
Keywords: Children, Collective, Participation, Rights, Tokenism
Introduction
This consultation process with children and young people formed part of the national consultation process with stakeholders for the National Obesity Policy. It was commissioned by the Department of Health and conducted by the Citizen Participation Unit, Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA).
This report presents the findings from consultations with children from primary schools and teenagers from Comhairle na nÓg (child and youth councils across local authorities in Ireland). Two consultations were held – one with 34 young people aged 13 to 17 years, from 11 of the 31 Comhairle na nÓg, and one with 48 primary school children between the ages of eight and 12 years. The children and young people were from counties Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Dundalk, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Kerry, Tipperary and Wicklow. In total, 82 children and young people were involved in this consultation process.