Consultation response

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NI Commissioner for Children & Young People (NICCY) Corporate Plan 2023 – 2027 consultation response.

NICCY has launched its draft Corporate Plan ‘Children’s Rights: From Rhetoric to Reality’ which outlines its strategic priorities for the next four years.  This plan sets out high-level objectives and builds on the achievements and progress of work carried out on the objectives identified in the...

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Independent Review of Northern Ireland’s Children's Social Care Services - consultation response

This review concluded in June 2023. After the review report's publication, the NI Department of Health ran a consultation to seek views on its recommendations. The College submitted its response in December 2023; we supported some recommendations but noted the need for a whole child approach to heal...

Social care

Public health

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Statutory Guidance on the Reduction and Management of Restrictive Practices in Educational Settings in Northern Ireland

The Department of Education (‘the Department’) published a report on the Review of Restraint and Seclusion in Educational Settings on 25 March 2022. Following on from this the Department launched a consultation seeking views on its Statutory Guidance on the Reduction and Management of Restrictive Pr...

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Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping in the UK - consultation response

In December 2023, we responded to a consultation from the UK Government and devolved administrations’ on creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping. The College supports raising the age of sale to create a smokefree generation and a full prohibition on the sale and supply of disposabl...

Health policy

Public health

Smoking and vaping

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Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse - consultation response

In November 2023, we responded to the Government's consultation on the introduction of Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse. This followed our response in August 2023 to the Government's call for evidence on Mandatory Reporting. We were disappointed to see an absence of acknowledgement in the m...

Safeguarding

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Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing continuation and future pricing consultation

In November 2023, we responded to the Scottish Government's consultation on Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP). MUP was implemented in Scotland in 2018 and the consultation sought to discern whether it ought to continue. Below is a short summary, with our full response available in the downloads section.

Health policy

Public health

Alcohol

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Draft Child Poverty Strategy for Wales – consultation response

In September 2023 we responded to the Welsh Government consultation on the Draft Child Poverty Strategy for Wales. The Welsh Government consulted on five objectives which they thought would change the lives of children and young people in poverty.

Area of medicine

Community child health

Public health

Health inequalities

Wellbeing for children and young people

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Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare (Wales) - consultation response

In September 2023 we responded to the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s inquiry into ‘Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare. In this inquiry, the Committee looked to understand how children and young people who are neurodivergent, have phys...

Area of medicine

Neurodisability

Learning disability or learning difficulty

Public health

Wellbeing for children and young people

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RCPCH Response to Working Together to Safeguard Children - call for evidence

In September 2023 we responded to the Department for Education’s Open Consultation on Working Together to Safeguard Children: Changes to statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Health policy

Safeguarding

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Workforce consultation responses - summary 2021-23

We lead and collaborate on consultations relating to the child health workforce in all four UK nations. Here we introduce these consultations, with links to our full responses published on this website.

Workforce