Submissions & Policy Work
Submissions and Policy Work relating to LGBTQ+ Youth
Below is a selection of submissions and policy-related proposals made by Belong To relating to LGBTQ+ young people and their experiences, to affect positive social change in Ireland.
Belong To Input to Coimisiún na Meán on Developing Ireland’s First Binding Online Safety Code for Video-Sharing Platform Services – September 2023
Belong To Submission to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the development of an Action Plan for Youth Services – July 2023
Belong To Submission to the Citizen’s Assembly on Drugs Use – June 2023
Belong To Submission to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) on the review of the Junior Cycle Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum – October 2022
Belong To Submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on the new Action Plan on Bullying – April 2022
Belong To Submission to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on the Census 2027 Public Consultation – January 2022
Belong To Submission to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the Review of the Equality Acts – December 2021
Belong To Submission to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) on the background paper and brief for the redevelopment of Junior Cycle SPHE – November 2021
Belong To Submission on the Draft Combined Fifth and Sixth State Report of Ireland to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child – November 2021
Belong To Submission to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) LGBTI+ Resident Policy – November 2021
Belong To Submission to the Department of Justice on the General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill – August 2021
Belong To Submission for the 39th Session of the UN Universal Period Review Working Group – May 2021
Belong To Submission to the Department of Health for the Public Consultation on the review of the Mental Health Act, 2001 – April 2021
