Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI)

Children in Northern Ireland (CiNI) is the regional umbrella organisation for the children’s sector in Northern Ireland. CiNI provides training, policy, information, and participation support services to member organisations, relating to their work with children and young people.

"CiNI remains the most important umbrella organisation in the voluntary child care sector" (SSI Report, 2006)

News

  • Consultation on SBNI Strategic Plan

    SBNI would like to bring to your attention the first SBNI Strategic Plan for consultation

    Documents can be viewed by clicking HERE

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    CiNI Response to Childcare Consultation

    The first childcare strategy for Northern Ireland was published in 1999, entitled Children First.  The Strategy highlighted a number of challenges that needed to be addressed.  One was the high cost of childcare; others were the number of parents who did not have access to childcare services, childcare services not being appropriate, and insufficient information services for parents.  Those issues were identified in 1999, and they are still very relevant today.

    Read more from CiNI’s response to OFMDFM Towards a Childcare Strategy here.

  • Working Together Can Change Children's Lives

    Policy makers, researchers, commissioners and service providers in the children’s sector have called on Government to renew its commitment to the full delivery and implementation of the Children’s Strategy as they came together today for the last in a series of seminars at Queen’s University, Belfast.

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