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 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