Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People

The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) is a publicly funded post, with responsibility for protecting children's rights as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nigel Williams was the Commissioner from its introduction in 2003 until his death in 2006.[1]

In day-to-day operation, the Commissioner is independent and free to determine his/her own priorities according to a number of guiding principles chief of which is a requirement that the rights of the child must be the Commissioner's paramount consideration; but also including, for example, a requirement to have regard to the role of parents. The remit includes the full spectrum of public authorities whose activities affect children and young people – including those operating in the non-devolved field, such as juvenile justice agencies, also to investigate complaints from individuals in particular circumstances.[2]

Commissioners
gollark: I think you're anthropomorphizing them too much.
gollark: Reinforcement learning is a field which exists, though.
gollark: The largest AIs around are just trained to predict the next token of text, which is very easy to test and gives good natural language understanding.
gollark: With how things are going, it seems entirely possible that you'd get something human-level in at least a few ways just by taking some current AI designs and scaling them up a few orders of magnitude.
gollark: We can make language models act "emotionally" right now, also.

See also

References
  1. Profile: Nigel Williams. Retrieved 24/7/08
  2. House of Lords Speech Archived 30 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "New children's commissioner Koulla Yiasouma appointed". BBC. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  4. ENOC Members
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