NICCY Response to Optional Protocol Education

Through our ongoing work in education and poverty, NICCY is aware that barriers to public education, which is free to all, persist, undermining the important role that education can play in reducing growing levels of child poverty.  With educational provision increasingly dependent on families’ ability to pay, it is of great concern that children in NI are being denied their fundamental right to a full and effective education.

The full response can be downloaded on the right-hand side of this page.

Read NICCY’s Review of the Costs of Education as an annexed paper, also on the right-hand side of this page.