Expired Government framework for children won't be updated until 2022

Youth worker Aidan Farrelly said the absence of an up-to-date children and young people’s policy framework was 'deeply troubling'. 

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman has confirmed he will not develop a new children and young person’s policy framework until 2022.

In response to a question from Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy, Mr O'Gorman blamed Covid-19, the State reporting to the UN Rights of the Child, and the EU Child Guarantee, for refusing to progress a policy framework that expired in 2020.