Barnardo's Northern Ireland
Barnardo’s NI works for children first and last. In over 100 years we have helped improve the lives and opportunities of tens of thousands of children in communities across Northern Ireland. We work wherever children need us most.
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Launch of Barnardo's NI Policy and Practice Briefing No 14, Breaking down barriers to learning: primary school-based counselling and support.
January 2012
Barnardo’s Primary School Counselling service, ‘Time 4 Me’ which aims to increase emotional well-being in order to improve learning potential recently launched a policy and practice briefing entitled ‘Breaking Down Barriers to Learning’ at Parliament Buildings.
The report is based on an evaluation of the service being carried out by Strathclyde University. The research has found that 88% of children who receive counselling from the Barnardo’s service show clinical improvement and the greatest improvements are for young people with disabilities. The launch was attended by Education Minister John O’Dowd MLA and sponsored by Pat Ramsey MLA.
Research report launched on child sexual exploitation in Northern Ireland
November 2011
Barnardo’s Northern Ireland has just launched a report into the extent of child sexual exploitation in Northern Ireland.
The report entitled 'Not a World Away' has found that it is an issue of concern for almost two thirds of girls in residential care homes in Northern Ireland who were included in the study. It also found that sexual exploitation affects both male and females and that where cases of concern were identified in half of those cases the abuse lasted at least one year and in over 16 per cent it lasted three or more years.
Read the press release, the full report and the executive summary.
Pictured are Minister Edwin Poots, Lynda Wilson (Director Barnardo's NI) and Dr Helen Beckett (author of report)
