Children’s Rights Alliance: Making Child Poverty Policies Real – 24 June, Dublin

Date:     24 June 2016

Time:    10.00am – 4.30pm

Venue:  Chartered Accountants House, 47-49 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

The Children’s Rights Alliance is holding a conference to discuss how to make child poverty policies a reality. The conference will breathe life into important commitments on child poverty in Ireland and explore how they should be translated into reality.

Panellists include:

  • Graeme Belshaw, European Commission
  • Liz Canavan, Department of Children and Youth Affairs
  • Michael Cunningham, Department of Social Protection
  • Fergus Finlay, Barnardos
  • Hugh Frazer, Maynooth University
  • Gabriel González , UNICEF Spain
  • Jana Hainsworth, Eurochild
  • Mairead McGuinness MEP
  • Leo Varadkar, TD, Minister for Social Protection
  • Young Voices, European Structured Dialogue Group, National Youth Council of Ireland
  • Katherine Zappone, TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

Registration for the seminar is €22, however a small number of bursaries are available for those who need financial support to attend. Spaces are limited, so pre-registration is required.

To enquire further, please email Lisa Ennis at intern@childrensrights.ie.

Click here to register for this event.

 

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