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Centre for Children's Rights marks 10 years of Children's Services Co-operation Act

Children's Rights | 24 November, 2025

The Centre for Children's Rights, in partnership with the Children’s Law Centre, hosted an event to mark the tenth anniversary of the Children’s Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.

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Incorporating Children’s Rights into Law in Northern Ireland

By Prof Bronagh Byrne from the Centre for Children’s Rights, QUB and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY)

Visiting Professor

14 May, 2025

CCR welcomes visiting academics from the University of Stavanger, Norway

30 April, 2025

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Siobhán McAlister joins the DfE Working Group on EVAWG in Tertiary Education

Co-designing a resource to raise awareness of young women’s experiences of violence

30 April, 2025

Department for Communities commission to conduct a review of the NI Families Sign project.

Research on Family Courts processes in Northern Ireland

Presentation on young women’s understandings and experiences of violence and domestic abuse

CCR launches first of its ‘Incorporation Conversations’ series

OECD expert meeting on child empowerment in Luxembourg

Save the Children and Young at Art Making Policy Event

Keynote at British Early Childhood Educational Research Association conference

11 April, 2025

Victim Support NI Conference

11 April, 2025

Presentation to the Department of Education

11 April, 2025

Raising minimum age of criminal responsibility in NI

19 March, 2025

Review of Sign Language Classes for Families of Deaf Children

13 March, 2025

QUB CCR Collaboration with NICCY: Incorporation Conversations

26 February, 2025

PhD Funded Studentships at the Centre for Children's Rights

5 February, 2025

Seminar for Beloit College Students 23 May

2 May, 2024

Welcome to Dr. Chris Parker as Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Children’s Rights

10 November, 2023

Research Launch: Girls’ and Young Women’s Views and Experiences of Violence in Northern Ireland

20 September, 2023

The Use of Secure Accommodation Orders in Jersey: Research, Findings and Recommendations

Survey: How do children from Ukraine experience the war?

10 March, 2023

A Place to Call Home

23 February, 2023

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The Centre for Children’s Rights welcomes Marta Basile

The Emotional Wellbeing of Deaf Children and Young People in Northern Ireland

Visiting Doctoral Scholar

22 September, 2022

Launch of Tracing the Review: Developments in Youth Justice in Northern Ireland 2011-2021

Participation and Collaboration for Action (PANDA)

CCR Host Blog Series on Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility

Developing age appropriate questionnaires to measure Good Relations among children and young people

Oral evidence presented on the effects of paramilitarism

31 May, 2022

Centre Members Present Oral Evidence to The Committee for the Executive Office and the NI Affairs Committee on the Effect of Paramilitarism. May 2022

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Talking about our Past and Present: The Impacts of Conflict Legacy

14 December, 2021

Children's right to freedom of association, protest and participation in the digital environment

15 November, 2021

Launch of joint research report between CCR and Commissioner for Victims and Survivors

8 November, 2021

‘Wild Things’ seminar takes place

‘Wild Things’ seminar takes place with scholars from Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia

Life on the Rock Report Launched by Office of the Children’s Commissioner for Jersey

30 September, 2021

ESRC/NINE postdoctoral fellowship

30 September, 2021

2021 European Conference on Educational Research

10 September, 2021

Young Children’s Right to Participate in Child Protection Decision Making

21 June, 2021

ESRC NINE Scholarship

2 June, 2021

MSc Children's Rights and MSc Youth Justice Programmes

24 May, 2021

The NI Youth Assembly Advisory Group

24 March, 2021

STudio photograph of Professor Laura Lundy

Training for the Ne & N Cumbria's Child Health and Well-being Network

23 March, 2021

CCR represented in the Gillen Review Group, set up by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland

23 March, 2021

Advice on reparations for child abuse in residential care in Chile

23 March, 2021

'Active Citizenship for a Hopeful Future': Five Nations Network Citizenship Conference 2021

26 February, 2021

Training for the Board of the NI Guardian Ad Litem Association

16 February, 2021

Children’s rights in the work of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Council

26 January, 2021

Keynote speaker at the Australian Early Childhood Voices 2020 conference

16 November, 2020

What does the pandemic mean for children? #CovidUnder19 Global Survey results

9 December, 2020

Keynote at ENOC Childrens rights seminar

ENOC Keynote on Child Right Impact Assessment

21 September, 2020

Global survey for 8-17 year old's to get their views and experiences of ‘Life under Coronavirus’

3 June, 2020

COVIDUnder19 - Global Children’s Consultation

Workshops on child participation for The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation

25 March, 2020

Newton International Fellow joins the Centre for Children’s Rights

1 April, 2020

New Zealand Keynotes on Children’s Participation in Educational Decision-Making

21 February, 2020

Training on child participation for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

21 February, 2020

Child Participation Think Tank: Children's Rights and Social Work - enhancing participatory research

29 January, 2020

Centre for Children’s Rights hosts 2019 Rights of the Child UK Annual Conference

20 January, 2020

Impact Prize for Lundy Model of Child Participation

12 December, 2019

UNICEF highlights impact of CCR research

Transgenerational Impacts of the Northern Ireland Conflict on Young People

EVENT | 31 October, 2019

European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) Annual Conference

EVENT | 31 October, 2019

Young People, Policing and Stop & Search

NEWS | 4 September, 2019

The Lundy Model of child participation

4 September, 2019

Lanyon Building at Queen's University Belfast

International visitors learn from local expertise on Child Participation

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