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Ireland’s two UNESCO Chair holders came together today to launch a joint Commentary on the proposed referendum on the rights of the child in Ireland. The 16-page document, ‘Children’s Rights and the Family’, forms a major part of the work of the Children and Youth Programme, an independent academic collaboration between Professor Alan Smith at the University of Ulster and Professor Pat Dolan from NUI Galway.
The conferring of the Foundation Certificate Programme in Youth Leadership and Community Action took place in NUI Galway on October 22nd 2011. In the academic year 2010/2011, 125 students from across Ireland, between 16 and 18 years of age, successfully completed the programme and 114 young people attended the conferring ceremony.
Ireland’s two UNESCO Chair holders came together on October 24th to launch an innovative and exciting programme dedicated to improving the rights and well being of children and young people across Ireland.
“Young voices from around the world will tell us our future, but the world must listen”, according to Professor Pat Dolan, Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement at NUI, Galway. Professor Dolan and colleagues attended the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum held in UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 17 to 20 October 2011.
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, T.D. named the 10-person Task Force on Friday, 23rd September to advise the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on the necessary transition programme in establishing a dedicated Child & Family Support Agency. Among the main responsibilities of the Agency are to advise the Government on the appropriate service responsibilities of such an agency and their delivery.
Cillian Murphy, actor and patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre paid a visit to site on 15th July 2011. He was introduced to staff and colleagues of the centre following his successful world premiere on the one man show ‘Misterman’ at the Galway Arts Festival. During his visit he was briefed on the centre’s programme of work and witnessed at first hand the work being done by staff.
In 2009 the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs commissioned the Child and Family Research Centre to undertake a Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population. In writing the Report the CFRC worked closely with Ireland’s Carers Association, particularly in the recruitment of participants. The Report was launched at the Carers Association’s annual national conference in 2010.
