Published date: 28 Mar 2006
Jillian van Turnhout, the then Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, spoke as representative of the Irish Youth Justice Alliance, a coalition concerned with reforming the youth justice system, comprising the Children’s Rights Alliance, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and the Irish Penal Reform Trust, along with leading legal practitioners, academics and other professionals working in the area. These included Dr. Ursula Kilkelly of the Faculty of Law, UCC, Maria Corbett of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Catherine Ghent, a solicitor who works daily in the Children’s Court and Louise Cadwell of Catholic Youth Care.