Author name: Lee Kane

CARE DAY is the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience. This group includes children and young people who are or were cared for by foster carers, or other family members, and those who live in children’s homes. They deserve to be celebrated, on CARE DAY, and every day. The first […]

VOYPIC is commissioned by the Health and Social Care Board to deliver independent advocacy support to care experienced children and young people across the five health and social care trusts (HSCT). Our advocacy service supports young people through a range of different methods such as individual advocacy support; visiting advocacy (children’s homes); advocacy activity days

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced a review of children’s social care services in Northern Ireland will begin in February 2022. Professor Ray Jones will be the independent lead reviewer assisted by an Advisory Panel.  Members of the Advisory Panel are Her Honour Judge Patricia Smyth, Professor Pat Dolan, and Marie Roulston, OBE (former Director

Two leading children’s charities have announced a major new development in the heart of Belfast’s iconic Cathedral Quarter. Paddy Mooney, Chief Executive of Include Youth, and Alicia Toal, Chief Executive of VOYPIC, have announced a £2m joint project to transform a derelict former warehouse at Great Patrick Street, Belfast, into a dedicated space for young

Merry Christmas from everyone at VOYPIC We would like to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a bright and Happy New Year 2022. The VOYPIC offices will close on Friday 24 December, and reopen on Tuesday 4 January. We will have a reduced service available between Wednesday 29 and Friday

Ballymena barbers have called on the local community to donate a Christmas gift to young people leaving care. Deputy Mayor of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Cllr Matthew Armstrong, joins Chris Power (The Barber Collective) and Iain Black (VOYPIC), and staff, to launch the appeal. The Barbers Collective, in partnership with VOYPIC-Voice of Young

We want to spread some Christmas cheer among young people with experience of care. Would you like to help?   Christmas is a special time, and we want to make sure that every young person in care and leaving care can celebrate the festive period. Each year we distribute gift bags and Christmas hampers to

Children’s rights in Northern Ireland are being compromised by a failure to implement youth justice review recommendations That’s the key message after the launch of a new expert led research report, jointly commissioned by four leading third-sector organisations – Children’s Law Centre, Include Youth, NIACRO and VOYPIC – Voice of Young People in Care. The

To mark our 28th birthday, VOYPIC is proud to launch our new short film- Your Place, Your Voice. The film showcases some of the ways VOYPIC has been helping children and young people with a lived experience of care to speak up and be heard over the past 28 years. This includes through advocacy, participation

Children from VOYPIC – Voice of Young People in Care – have launched a new story book, ‘Kindness and Superpowers’, to help raise awareness of the care experience across Northern Ireland. VOYPIC is the charity for children and young people with a lived experience of care across the region. Created in 1993 by a group