Programme

9:30am Registration
9:40am Opening and Introduction, Paul Gilligan, Chair of the Children’s Rights Alliance
9:45am ‘The Role Children’s Rights will Play in the Vision for the new Agency’
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD
10:05am ‘Rights, Responsibility, Respect – the new 3Rs for Ireland’s Children, Creating an Agency to Deliver’
Gordon Jeyes, CEO Designate, Child and Family Support Agency
10:35am Q&A
10:50am Tea/Coffee and Pastries/Fruit
11:20am ‘Listen to Our Voices’, Young People from the Department of Children and Youth Aairs’
Voice of Children in Care Implementation Group
11:40am ‘Learning from the Past: Embedding a Children’s Rights Approach into the Governance and Structures of the new Agency’ Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, Child Law Expert
12:10pm Q&A
12.20pm Panel Response and Q&A, Chaired by Professor Pat Dolan, Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway
- Jim Breslin, Secretary General, Department of Children and Youth Aairs
- Jennifer Gargan, Director, Empowering People in Care (EPIC)
- Catherine Ghent, Gallagher Shatter Solicitors
- Toby Wolfe, Start Strong and Prevention and Early Intervention Network
1:30pm Close by Professor Pat Dolan, Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research
Centre, NUI Galway