In this episode we welcome The Ombudsman for Children in Ireland Niall Muldoon to the podcast. In this episode Niall discusses growing up in Donegal and later moving to the UK to fit infrastructure for piped television. He discusses how he gravitated to the world of Psychology and began working with Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse.

He then describes how he applied and was successful in securing the role of Ombudsman for Children and how he began his second term just as Covid 19 struck.

Niall speaks candidly about the impact of Covid 19, Lockdowns and School Closures on Children and this is illustrated in the amount of cases passing through his office. He speaks about the impact of the last year on children with additional needs, special educational needs, children in poverty and those in disadvantaged areas.

Niall discusses how we need to progress into the future by listening to the voice of children and how his office is striving to provide better circumstances for Irish children post Covid.

Keywords: Parenting. Children with additional needs. Managing Covid 19 lockdowns. Children’s Rights. Educational provision, school closures and the voice of the child.  

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