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Mon 03 Mar 2010Implementing best practice on the right of children to be heard
The proposed wording for the constitutional amendment on childrens rights provides an opportunity for a world-class system allowing children's voices to be heard
THE PROPOSED wording for the amendment to the Constitution on children’s rights includes a reference to “the right of the child’s voice to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting the child, having regard to the child’s age and maturity”. This was enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, to which Ireland is a party.
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