NICCY have an Instagram account which you can visit here.

The aim of the site is to help keep young people up to date on NICCY's work and on issues affecting children and young people. 

Latest Update links

• Watch the live launch of the Head's Up Toolkit - developed by young people for young people to support them to develop mental health campaigns. 

• Youth Panel speak about sacrifices they are making & lost rites of passage due to the Pandemic - missing friends, increased screen time, exam worries & missed driving tests -  Belfast Live

• Dodds announces cancellation of vocational and Essential Skills exams

• Department of Infrastructure's new Youth Assembly.

• Covid-19: BBC NI launches online educational materials

• ‘We’re not there yet’, Children’s Commissioner tells NI Young People

• Children and young people inform the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about their experiences on the delivery of their rights 

• NICCY calls for action and urgent announcement on Summer 2021 Exams following England decision today (3.12.20) 

• Celebrating Rights - Right to Celebrate:  Can children’s rights provide a framework for celebrating culture and identity? Sign up here for the event 

• NICCY calls for GCSE and A-level exams to be cancelled - Read more on Belfast live

Click on a link below to find out more: 

• Today on World Mental Health Day we have an opportunity to help raise awareness of this really critical issue and something that is even more important and relevant during this pandemic. You can watch to the Commissioner speaking directly to you here 

• Children and young people put their questions to the UK's top scientists - click here to listen 

• Click here to view CCEA's Student Resource on Health and Wellbeing

• Click here to visit CCEA's summer exams awarding update

• Click to view NICCY's press release on Young People’s inability to appeal exam grades

• Click here to read NICCY's statement on this year's Transfer tests

• Read the Commissioner's blog on Covid and Education here 

Covid Website Section 

• You can also find out more on the Covid section of our website, which has information and advice for young people and their families. Click here to visit the page