All Party Assembly 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
Tuesday 9th September 2008 at 1pm in Room 135.
Officers of the Group
Chairperson:
Roy Beggs, MLA
Vice-Chairperson: Michelle McIlveen, MLA
Secretary: Naomi Long, MLA
Treasurer: Mary Bradley, MLA
Group Members
MLAs
Roy Beggs MLA, UUP
Mary Bradley MLA, SDLP
John O’Dowd MLA, SF
Danny Kennedy MLA, UUP
Basil McCrea MLA, UUP
Sue Ramsey MLA, SF
Michelle McIlveen MLA, DUP
Dominic Bradley MLA, SDLP
Naomi Long MLA, Alliance
Dawn Purvis MLA, PUP
Caral Ni Chuilin MLA, SF
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