The president of the UK's Supreme Court Lady Brenda Hale has been to Belfast to listen to demands for more protection for the human rights of disabled children.
And the baroness also talked of criticism from the United Nations of the Government's record on support for children with disabilities.
Lady Hale was also told that over 150 children...
On the 4 October 2018 the Youth Mental Health Committee (YMHC) representing young people from youth@clc (Children’s Law Centre) Belfast Youth Forum and NI Youth Forum launched their research report on mental health: Elephant in the Room – Exploring young people’s awareness of mental health in Northern Ireland in the Long Gallery in...
Posted on Thursday, 08 November 2018.
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CLC has undertaken a small scale piece of research to capture the opinions, thoughts and worries of children and young people in relation to Brexit. Whilst this is only a snapshot piece, we endeavoured to engage with a wide cross section of young people throughout this jurisdiction. We met with children and young people living in rural...
Posted on Wednesday, 08 March 2017.
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Organised by the Children’s Law Centre and
The Centre for Children’s Rights, QUB
Tuesday 6th December 2016
2pm-5.30 pm
Venue: Children in Northern Ireland, 40 Montgomery Rd, Belfast BT6 9HL
(Venue is fully accessible and free car parking available on-site)
Free event
The EU interfaces in very many areas of children’s lives...
Posted on Tuesday, 15 November 2016.
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INVITATION TO YOUNG PEOPLE
YOUTH@CLC, NI Youth Forum and Belfast Youth
Forum invite young people under 18 to participate in
WHAT YOU SAY MATTERS
YOUNG PEOPLE USING RIGHTS FOR CHANGE
A totally youth-led children’s rights event – by young people for young people
Includes
workshop discussions,
children’s rights videos,
Q and A...
Posted on Thursday, 08 September 2016.
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Kathryn Stevenson attends Dalriada School, Ballymoney to receive AS Level Business Studies students charitable donation to CLC. Many thanks to the pupils who raised the money from a mini company project as part of their Business Studies curriculum this year
APPRENTICE SOLICITOR REQUIRED
The Children’s Law Centre (Belfast) has received funding from The Legal Education Foundation’s Justice First Fellowship Scheme to recruit an Apprentice Solicitor from May 2017 – August 2019. The Legal Education Foundation will provide the Apprentice Solicitor with an agreed trainee solicitor’s salary...
Click Here to Listen to the BBC Radio Ulster Appeal on behalf of the Children's Law Centre
The Children's Law Centre provides advice, information and support about a range of legal issues involving children and young people across Northern Ireland. Every day children, parents, or those working with children contact CHALKY - the...
The Children's Law Centre, Save the Children (NI) and Youth@clc, supported by the Centre for Children's Rights, Queen's University Belfast, have prepared and submitted a NI Young People's Report and a NI NGO Alternative Report to inform the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's examination of the United Kingdom's compliance with its...
Carla talks about her physiotherapy being withdrawn from school and about how the Children's Law Centre helped in getting this reinstated, and the difference this has made to her exam grades.
CARLA from FinePoint on Vimeo.
Posted on Thursday, 15 January 2015.
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