Consultation on Regulations Under the Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

The Department of Health Social Services and Public is seeking views on three sets of draft regulations under the Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. The Act, which completed its passage through the Assembly in March 2014, aims to reduce youth smoking prevalence by making it more difficult for children and young people to access tobacco products.

Addressing Young People's Drinking in Northern Ireland: Action to Support the New Strategic Direction for Alcohol and Drugs

This action plan focuses on three main areas: • reducing young people’s demand for alcohol by providing information, education and training to young people and their parents; •restricting the supply of alcohol via measures to reduce accessibility to alcohol (including how alcohol is priced, marketed, and promoted); and • providing treatment and support for those who require additional help. While the emphasis of this action plan is on young people, it recognises that their drinking patterns are very much influenced by modelling the drinking patterns of adults in our society, and it therefore contains actions that will impact on the entire population. Alcohol misuse - however you measure the cost, whether to the individual, the family, the community, the health service, or society as a whole - is one of the biggest public health issues facing Northern Ireland.

Appendices for Complex Needs - The Nursing Response to Children and Young People with Complex Physical Healthcare Needs (PDF 708 KB)

Appendices to Complex Needs Report

Complex Needs - The Nursing Response to Children and Young People with Complex Physical Healthcare Needs (PDF 832 KB)

Departmental review of nursing services in order to ensure that they are facilitated to fully support and respond to children with complex needs and their families, and for them to work in partnership with other professions and agencies.

Fit Futures: Focus on Food, Activity and Young People (PDF 861 KB)

The Fit Futures: Focus on Food, Activity and Young People report

Secondary Analysis of the 2003 Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes Survey

(Drugs, Solvents and Alcohol)

Proposed Consultation on Implementation of the EC Directive on the Protection of Young People at Work (94/33) (PDF 114 KB)

Proposed Consultation on Implementation of the EC Directive on the Protection of Young People at Work (94/33)

Human Tissue Act 2004 (PDF 25 KB)

Draft Regulations for Consultation

Drug and Alcohol Use Among Young People in NI (PDF 424 KB)

A Secondary Analysis of Drug and Alcohol Use Surveys - Final Report

"I hadn't a penny": A review of State Income Supports Available to Young Parents

As Minister for Children, I am pleased to publish this paper which provides an overview of the income supports available for young parents. This paper has been commissioned as part of the evaluation of the Teenage Parents Support Initiative (TPSI) funded by the Department of Health and Children.The objective of this paper is to discuss the degree to which existing provision within the Irish welfare system meets the financial support needs of teenage parents, in particular, the level to which it meets the needs of different subgroups within the overall population of teenage parents. Download document here