Consultation on the appointment of a children's commissioner for Northern Ireland is to begin next month and in the autumn the Assembly will begin work on a children's strategy, a leading Assembly member revealed last week. At the launch of a report, Big Sister, Wee Brother, which examined the positive and negative aspects of being young in Belfast, Dermott Nesbitt, minister in the office of the first minister and deputy first minister, said children's views would be at the heart of shaping government policy in the Province on many of the issues affecting them.
Consultation on the appointment of a children's commissioner for Northern Ireland is to begin next month and in the autumn the Assembly will begin work on a children's strategy, a leading Assembly member revealed last week.
At the launch of a report, Big Sister, Wee Brother, which examined the positive and negative aspects of being young in Belfast, Dermott Nesbitt, minister in the office of the first minister and deputy first minister, said children's views would be at the heart of shaping government policy in the Province on many of the issues affecting them.
Mr Nesbitt also said the Assembly hoped the children's strategy would be a 'world leader'.
'Many children and young people in Northern Ireland have inherited a legacy of conflict. We owe it to those children to give them the best, most secure future we can,' he added.
