This policy memo provides an overview of the extent to which children’s rights are promoted and taken into account in policies and practice. The memo considers policy frameworks at national level as well as those at European Union (EU) level. The memo also discusses ways in which policies and wider initiatives facilitate children’s participation in decisions about their future.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an important agreement by countries who have promised to protect children’s rights.
The Direct Provision system is the means through which the State provides accommodation, food and personal expenses to asylum seekers while their applications for asylum status are being processed.
This document brings together the current thinking and practice on human rights based approaches in the education sector. It presents key issues and challenges in rights-based approaches and provides a framework for policy and programme development.
In recent years, children’s voice initiatives in education have gained increased recognition and application. However, while the concept of child and student ‘voice’ is not new, there remains a high level of inconsistency in how voice-focused initiatives are implemented across education sectors.
Children and young people have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives.
This research report on the experiences of young students with special educational needs (SEN), and their parents, of the move from primary to
post primary school.
Aboriginal children and young people have much to say about governance, law and policy, particularly about matters that are likely to affect their lives.
This article sheds some much-needed light on how participation rights can be made “real” at a local level.
A special edition of Child Care in Practice on “Raising the Voice of Children and Young People in Care”