Creating Benefit for All – Young People, Engagement and Public Policy
Young people’s participation in the economic, political and cultural life of all Australians is fundamental both now and in the future.
The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study
This report presents data from HBSC Ireland 2014, the Irish Health Behaviour in School- aged Children survey.
Sense of Place in Children’s Residential Care Homes
The aim of this paper is to explore meanings of home in domestic and regulated (institutional) environments from the perspective of young people and staff living and working in a residential children’s home in England.
TACTIC – Teenagers and Children Talking in Care
This Report forms part of the Commission’s Fourth Programme of Law Reform. It arises against the reality that we live in a truly interconnected digital and online world.
Volunteer Group Leaders Guide to National Quality Standards for Volunteer-led Youth Groups
The overall aim of the standards is to help improve the quality of the programmes and activities for young people and the way in which they are provided.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Study of Legal Implementation in 12 Countries.
A study on the legal and non-legal measures of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 12 countries other than the UK.
Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)2 of the Committee of Ministers on Participation of Children and Young People Under the Age of 18
The Recommendation is aimed at ensuring the effective implementation of binding European and international instruments protecting children’s rights.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure
The third optional protocol on a communications procedure is a treaty which establishes an international complaints mechanism for violations of children’s rights contained in the the CRC, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict.
Children and the Law: Medical Treatment
This Report forms part of the Commissions Third Programme of Law Reform and follows the publication in 2009 of a Consultation Paper on Children and the Law: Medical Treatment.
Listen to Our Voices – Report of Consultations With Children and Young People Living in the Care of the State
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.