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

11th November 2010, Room 135 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Officers of the Group

Chairperson: Dawn Purvis, MLA
Vice-Chairperson: Michelle McIlveen, MLA
Secretary: Roy Beggs, MLA
Treasurer: Chris Lyttle, 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
Chris Lyttle 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

Financial or other benefits received

None

* Administration for the Group is provided by Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI)