Senior Participation Officer, Hub na nÓg

Foróige holds the contract to provide Children and Young People’s Participation Support Services – Hub na nÓg to the Department of Children, Disability and Equality (DCDE) until April 2028, with the potential of an extension of up to two years. This will build on Foróige’s previous record of the provision of these services since 2017. 

Young Ireland: National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2023-2028 is DCDE’s flagship policy for children and young people. Young Ireland seeks to improve outcomes for all children and young people and to ensure that children and young people are a central part of everyone’s agenda by creating an enabling environment that places their rights and well-being as a core part of policy and decision making. The Participation in Decision Making Action Plan 2024-2028 aims to further embed children and young people’s influence on decision-making. Succeeding the National Strategy on Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision Making 2015-2020, the action plan is the second plan from the Irish Government to support children and young people’s participation in decision-making.