Children and young people deserve better from government, the children’s commissioner has said. The Stormont Assembly is unable to function after the DUP refused to nominate ministers or a speaker as part of a protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol. The commissioner has given her assessment on how government is delivering on children’s right across a range of areas in her third a final Statement of Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland 3. “Poverty is the tarnished thread that runs through the most egregious breaches of the rights of children and young people in Northern Ireland. Armed groups target and abuse children living in working-class communities, and children and families subject to immigration control are deprived of an adequate standard of living,” she said.

Source: The Herald November 17, 2022 00:17 UTC