'What's Important To You' Survey

Use your voice and tell the Children's Commissioner what you think.

NICCY stands for the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People and your Children’s Commissioner is Chris Quinn. It is Chris’ role to safeguard and promote the rights and best interests of children and young people.

Tell Chris what he needs to work on to improve things for children and young people in Northern Ireland.

It is also important that the Commissioner can keep in touch with children and young people, to hear from them and update them about the work he does. Let him know what you think is the best way to do this.

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* 1. Please add your full name (optional)

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* 2. What is your date of birth?

Date of birth

Date

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* 3. Regardless of whether we practice religion, most of us in Northern Ireland are seen as either Catholic or Protestant. We are therefore asking you to indicate your community background by ticking the appropriate box below.

I am a member of the Protestant community

I am a member of the Roman Catholic community

I am a member of neither the Protestant nor Roman Catholic community

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* 4. Ethnic origin

White

Chinese

Irish Traveller

Indian

Pakistani

Bangladeshi

Black Caribbean 

Black African 

Mixed ethnic group

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* 5. What is your gender?

Female

Male

Transgender

Non-binary

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* 6. There are many issues that are important to children and young people and have an impact on their lives. For example, these could be issues around health or education or the environment.

What things do you think need to be improved? If you had the power to change things to make children and young people's lives better, what would you do?

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* 7. What do you think are the best ways for the Commissioner to get in touch with children and young people?

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* 8. What do you think are the best ways for children and young people to get in touch with the Commissioner?

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* 9. This year, for the first time, NICCY are creating a Youth Engagement Forum (YEF). The aim of this group will be to support NICCY by providing your voice to support our work on particular issues. Engagement will be mainly online – emails, survey monkeys, zoom etc., however, there maybe specific timebound projects we’ll ask members of the Engagement Forum to volunteer for.

Also, if vacancies become available on the NICCY Youth Panel, we'll go to the YEF to fill those spaces.

If you are interested in joining the Youth Engagement Forum, please add your email below (please make sure you have answered Question 1 as well)