Opportunities for Youth – National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services
Opportunities for Youth: National Strategy for Youth Work and Related Services sets out Ireland’s key policy ambitions for youth work and related services.
Contribution of Participatory Research with Children and Young People to Policy
Policy agendas currently shape the identity of childhood and children’s role in society. They guide the development and delivery of children’s services across all domains of their life, including health, education and social welfare.
The Agenda for Children’s Services: Reflective Questions for HSE Senior Managers
The aim of The Agenda is to assist policy-makers, managers and front-line practitioners to engage in reflective practice.
Is the honeymoon over? Children and young people’s participation in public decision-making
Children and young people’s participation in public decision-making is now firmly on international and national agendas. This article concludes the special issue on such participation, by discussing three central issues for children.
‘Ask Us … This Is Our Country’: Designing Laws and Policies with Aboriginal Children and Young People
Aboriginal children and young people have much to say about governance, law and policy, particularly about matters that are likely to affect their lives.
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.
Teenage Mental Health: What Helps and What Hurts? Report on the Outcome of Consultations with Teenagers on Mental Health
This report discusses the developing policies and services that meet the needs of young people through engaging directly with them.
Consultation Document for a Recreation Policy for Young People in Ireland
Public consultation to inform the development of a National Recreation Policy for Children and Young People
READY, STEADY, PLAY! A National Play Policy
The Government, under the National Children’s Strategy, launched in November 2000, included a commitment to develop National Play and Recreation Policies. The Play Policy addresses the needs of younger children.
Our Children – Their Lives: National Children’s Strategy 2000-2010
The Strategy set out a series of objectives to guide children’s policy over a ten year period in Ireland, from 2000-2010.