Rights of the Child Resources

Questions on Rights of the Child were asked in 1998 and 2002.
Questions were also asked of 12-17 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 1998, and of 16 year olds in 2007 and 2009.

ARK Resources

The Online Research Bank (ORB) contains a bibliography and summaries of social policy research in Northern Ireland since 1990 - view the entries for young people, which include summaries of the following research:

• Sectarianism, Children and Community Relations in Northern Ireland by Paul Connolly and Paul Maginn
  
• Exclusion from School: The Why and the Wherefore by Rosemary Kilpatrick

The ORB Children’s Research Database is sponsored by the Children and Young People's Unit in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and contains a bibliography of key research documents focused on the lives of children and young people in Northern Ireland since 2000 with, in many cases, a summary of the work.

Links

• The Children and Young People's Unit within the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister was established to ensure that the rights and needs of children and young people living in Northern Ireland are given a high priority. The Unit has published aten-year Children's and Young People's Strategy 2006-2016.
• The Office of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People was set up by The Commissioner for Children and Young People (Northern Ireland) Order 2003. The principal aim is “to safeguard and promote the rights and best interests of children and young persons”. The NICCY site includes publications, consultations and a section on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• The Childline site has sections for children and young people, and for adults, including a section on issues affecting young pople.
  
• The Children's House site from Norway has a floor devoted to Children's Rights
  
• The Child Rights Information Network contains information on the rights of children with disabilities, child labour laws, and the rights of children in armed conflict.
  
• To learn more about the composition and effects of various illegal drugs, try the FRANK website. This site is part of the government's public campaign, and is aimed at 11-21 year olds and their parents.
  
• The National Children's Bureau is a registered charity that encourages young people to take an interest in conditions that affect them. One of their publications - Voices behind the Statistics - is based on community relations in Northern Ireland, and was influenced by the Young Life and Times survey.
  
• Information on past and current child care research can be found at the Institute for Child Care Research at Queens University Belfast, and the Children's Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin.
  
• The UNICEF site contains a section on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
• Children are unbeatable! campaigns for children to have the same legal protection against being hit as adults and promotes positive, non-violent discipline.

Maintained by Paula Devine