All Party Group on Children and Young People
Purpose:
- To provide a forum to facilitate and enable cross party discussion and co-operation on children and young people’s issues;
- To work with children and young people and the children’s sector to facilitate better co-ordination on children’s issues within the Assembly and Executive;
- To raise the profile of children and young people’s issues within the Assembly and Executive;
- To secure and maintain a priority focus on children and young people’s issues on the Programme for Government;
- To promote and support the mainstreaming of rights and equality for all children and young people within government legislation, policy, and service provision so that positive outcomes are secured for all children and young people.
Forthcoming Meetings
To be arranged
Officers of the Group
Chairperson: Michelle McIlveen MLA
Vice-Chairperson: Chris Lyttle MLA
Secretary: Mark H Durkan MLA
Treasurer: Sandra Overend MLA
Group Members
MLAs
Michelle McIlveen, DUP
Chris Lyttle, Alliance
Roy Beggs, UUP
John O’Dowd, Sinn Fein
Danny Kennedy, UUP
Basil McCrea, UUP
Sue Ramsey, Sinn Fein
Dominic Bradley, SDLP
Caral Ni Chuilin, Sinn Fein
Sandra Overend, UUP
Mark H Durkan, SDLP
Contact Details
Elaine Conway
Policy Officer
Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI)
Unit 9, 40 Montgomery Road
Belfast
Tel: 02890 401290
Email: elaine@ci-ni.org.uk
Financial or other benefits received
Secretarial support received from Children in Northern Ireland on an on-going basis