Youth Homelessness Strategy 2023-2025
A 3-year strategy working towards ending homelessness for young people aged 18-24 through prevention and exits; and improving the experience of young people accessing emergency accommodation.
Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children: Digital Technology, Play and Child Well-being (Phase 1 Report)
New research from UNICEF Innocenti and Western Sydney University explores the question: what does well-being mean to children in a digital age? This first-phase report prioritises the voices of children, collected through workshops with over 300 children from 13 countries along with analysis of existing survey data from 34,000 children aged 9-17 across 30 countries.
Report on the Consultations with Minority Ethnic Young People
This report presents the findings of the consultations with young people from minority ethnic backgrounds.
The Rights of the Child and What This Means for Teachers
Teachers invariably want to do right by children in their classrooms. Increasingly, this means listening to children and acting on their views. Listening to “student voice” and incorporating children’s views about education in classroom and school decision making is important if we want to encourage authentic forms of belonging, wellbeing, learning, and achievement that really matter to children
Report on the Consultations with Young People to inform the Youth Homelessness Strategy Consultation
In the Programme for Government ‘Our Shared Future’ and in the Housing for All Housing Plan to 2030), the Government committed to developing a Youth Homelessness Strategy.
Report on Consultation With Children and Young People on Adoption Regulations
This report details the findings of consultations with children and young people to inform the drafting of adoption regulations that will set out how the Adoption Authority of Ireland or Court will hear the views of the child in his or her adoption order hearings.
Pieces of Us – A Children’s Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
In the years since the last Children’s Report, children’s lives in Ireland have undoubtedly changed significantly. As with the rest of the world, the Covid 19 pandemic hit children in Ireland hard, and the full impact of public health restrictions on their education, health and mental health, family and other personal relationships is still largely unknown and emerging.
Children’s Participation in Child Protection—How do Practitioners Understand Children’s Participation in Practice?
Children’s participation is essential to achieve good outcomes for children involved in child protection systems. Despite this, research has consistently found children report low levels of participation, are poorly consulted and feel inadequately involved in decisions about their lives. To explore how practitioners understand children’s participation, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted with statutory child protection practitioners in Australia.
Analysis of Youth Creative Participation (LCYP Laois Offaly)
How children and young people were involved in research analysing youth creative participation and engagement
Consultations with Children and Young People for the Family Justice Oversight Group
The Family Justice Oversight group, formed by Helen McEntee Minister for Justice, is currently developing a plan for the family justice system for Ireland.