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Tue 10 Oct 2009North-South approach could make island safer for children
THE IRISH Government should work closely with the Northern Ireland Office to map out current differences in child protection legislation with a view to seeing where it’s feasible to harmonise policies and approaches on an all-island basis, a conference on child protection has heard.
Dr John Devaney, lecturer in social work at Queen’s University, and Colin Reid, policy and public affairs manager at NSPCC in Belfast, said that while much progress had been made, there still remained differences between child protection policies North and South which could be reduced significantly.
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