by Guest | Nov 26, 2018 | Process
An insight into Weekend 2 of the Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland Kaela Scott As 75 members of the Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland converged on the Europa Hotel on Friday 16 November for their second weekend, there was a real buzz in the room – members...
by Guest | Nov 9, 2018 | Perspectives
by David McBurney I had read about Assemblies in Ireland, Canada and the Netherlands that had successfully placed the citizen at the heart of decision-making, so I was excited to see how an exercise in deliberative democracy closer to home would work in practice. The...
by Guest | Nov 9, 2018 | Social Care
by Alexandra Chapman The Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland has been tasked with examining social care for older people and providing recommendations for future provision. This could not come at a more appropriate time as the need and urgency to reform adult...
by Guest | Nov 6, 2018 | Process
by Kaela Scott Members of the Citizens Assembly gathered for the first time on the top floor of the Europa hotel on Friday 26 October for dinner. It was a chance to meet each other and find out a little more about how the Citizens’ Assembly would work… and,...
by Rebekah McCabe | Nov 1, 2018 | News
A group of 77 people from across Northern Ireland came together this weekend to consider the topic of social care for older people in the first Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland. Run by Involve – the UK’s leading public participation charity – members of the...
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