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
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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…

We've put together this short brief on the #TwoChildLimit in NI. Child Poverty is growing in- recent stats from Communities NI show a significant increase. #Remove2ChildLimit is key to securing a better future for marginalised children.

The children and young people's engagement team RCPCH are proud to be on the #LeadingLundy national steering group. We are working with 10 #Epilepsy units in England on a pilot to use #LundyModel in hospitals linked tonational care bundle thanks to Epilepsy12 & Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

A very special day - the #LeadingLundy crew came to Queen’s. Thanks to Chris Quinn HubnanOg for great talks & to all the steering group esp. Bez Martin for the passion & commitment. Ambitious plans underway to grow & support the network.

This was really interesting input - Ireland are really ahead of the curve/world(!) in the ways they are putting CYP #participation at the centre of government decision making. So much we in the UK can learn from them!

#LeadingLundy

Our Participation team is gathering with experts today to discuss how we can use the Lundy model of participation. They’ll be looking at how we can involve the voices of children in our work and how we can best capture evidence!

Really proud to see Tash 🌼 views on the Lundy Model being used by Laura Lundy really important to hear young people's views!! Well done Tash Care Experienced Consultants (CEC) Samantha Merry Kate

Thrilled to be part of an insightful event at Children'sRightsQUB with Laura Lundy, NI Commissioner for Children and Young People Chris Quinn & colleagues from UK & Ireland to develop a Community of Practice on Rights-Based #ChildrensParticipation and how we can capture the value, impact & influence #LeadingLundy