Lots of great learning materials for schools on children’s rights & participation including useful myth busting FAQs & guide to using the #LundyModel from ⁦UNICEF UK⁩ Rights Respecting Schools Award team. unicef.org.uk/rights-respect…

I am currently working on a policy paper discussing the role of education reform in the lives of neurodiverse children & young people in NI.

If you are an SEN young person or a parent of a child with SEN & would like to be involved- please consider dropping me a message.

Join the OCO team! We're hiring at the Ombudsman for Children's Office for a number of roles across the office. For more info, head over to our website.

oco.ie/about-us/vacan…

#JobFairy #WereHiring

Looking forward to this event on Friday. A rare opportunity to hear how judges are engaging with the #UNCRC . And delighted that Prof Helen Stalford of European Children's Rights Unit will join us and give a response. Join us if you can.

Incredible night. Much appreciation to AuroraWatch UK which I follow obsessively and had us all well warned to get out and look north. Last night it paid off on Divis ❤️

Our resource videos on the #UNCRC are now available in #InternationalSignLanguage . Part 1 Where did the UNCRC come from below

youtu.be/gzASThM4SbA?si…

Hub na nÓg are delighted to promote the AsIAm Visual Guide Template for use by organisations in helping Autistic children and young people feel more informed and comfortable ahead of attending events, consultations, etc. We have begun using the guide ahead of our consultations

New article by Sean Molloy (Sean molloy), 'The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12: Applying the Lundy model to treaty body recommendations' Leiden Journal of International Law
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This will be be a fascinating event. Judge Fitzgerald has been focal to the work of Communication Assistants (intermediaries) in New Zealand. We need more critical insights into the work of specialist communication assistants in justice systems, and we need to learn from other!

Laura Lundy Children'sRightsQUB Kim Turner Judge Tony Fitzgerald has done a lot of work with our team in Auckland over the years and his presentation is likely to be highly relevant to your SLT and intermediary networks in the UK and Ireland.

A reminder that this is happening at 12 pm UK time.

Find out more about our PG courses in #ChildRights and #YouthJustice Children'sRightsQUB at our webinar on 9 May. Register here - qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/web….
One of our recent graduates, Rhona Matheson CEO of Starcatchers, Scotland, shares her experiences of the course below:

Today the OCO published two reports on our learnings from organising accessible and inclusive events.

📖Beyond Limits: Accessible and Inclusive Event Guide

📖How to run a mixed ability Youth Advisory Panel: key learnings from the OCO

Available now: Oco.ie/library

We’re excited to be showing a specially recorded conversation with Murray Sinclair, former Chief Commissioner of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 10 May, Eaton Lecture 2024, followed by panel discussion!

REGISTER: go.qub.ac.uk/eaton-2024

What’s the impact of #childparticipation on children, adults &policy makers. Important ❓🙋🏽, inspiring answers & stimulating🗣️🎤Leaving Malta 🇲🇹 motivated and looking forward to the toolkit.

Fascinating day co-creating tools to capture the impact of child participation with Maltese policy-makers. This session focuses on the much-neglected impact on adults.

The European Commission's #EUChildParticipation Platform is asking children & young people how they want to participate in #democracy . 🇪🇺🤝

👉Share the survey link with children & young people to help them speak up! 📢eu-for-children.europa.eu/democracy-voti…

Hub na nÓg and our colleague Deirdre Reidy from Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth are delighted to have had the opportunity to speak about Ireland’s participation strategies and structures at the #LeadingLundy National Community of Practice in Queen's University Belfast 🎓 yesterday. It was wonderful to meet with