VUĊI Toolkit – Valuing and Understanding Children’s Impact
A helpful tool designed specifically to measure the impact of child participation on children, adults, and policymaking.
Author: Government of Malta, UCC, Commissioner for Children
Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making Action Plan 2024-2028 (Youth-friendly Version)
Youth-friendly version of the Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making: Action Plan 2024-2028.
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.
Evidence-based Approaches to Policy-making and Service Delivery for Children and Young People in Ireland
This chapter discusses current practice and opportunities to strengthen evidence-based approaches to policymaking and service delivery for children and young people in Ireland. It analyses capacity among government departments and agencies to collect, utilise and share evidence that is disaggregated by age and other identity factors and coordinate research within the framework of the Children and Young People (CYP) Indicator Set, with a focus on mapping the needs of vulnerable groups of children and young people. It also discusses the collection of evidence through involving children, young people, and civil society in policymaking, as well as the development of regulatory impact assessments to anticipate child and youth outcomes ex ante.
Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making Action Plan 2024-2028
This Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making: Action Plan 2024-2028 is the second national plan to support children and young people to participate in decision-making.
Report on Consultation with Young Carers
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.
Young Ireland: National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2023-2028
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), ratified by Ireland in 1992, sets out the rights of children and young people up to the age of 18 and forms the basis for the vision in Young Ireland.
Report on the Consultations with Minority Ethnic Young People
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.
Report on the Public Consultation on the Next Government Policy Framework for the Participation of Children and Young People in Decision-making
This policy framework will build on the achievements of the National Strategy for Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making 2015-2020 (The Strategy).
Consultation with Young People on Cancer Prevention Behaviours
The HSE National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) in conjunction with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality (DCDE) (formerly the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth (DCEDIY)) and the National Participation Office (NPO) undertook a consultation with young people on skin cancer prevention behaviours in 2021.