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.