Safe and Protected

Me and My Meeting Booklets 

This series of booklets supports practitioners to provide children and young people with a platform to express their views and integrate youth participation into their work with children and young people.

The Me and My Meeting series consists of five booklets, designed for use by a range of practitioners, including social workers and family support workers.  The booklets were originally developed in 2015 by Tusla’s Child Protection Team in Swinford, Co Mayo to enable social workers to ensure that the child’s voice is adequately represented in Child Protection Conferences. In 2020 these resources were further developed and enhanced following a wide stakeholder consultation which included Mayo Young Person’s Advisory Group and Comhairle na nÓg and support and funding from Children and Young People's Services Committees. Using these booklets can support improvements in practice and can help identify opportunties for systems change; leading to better outcomes for children and young people.

You can view and/or download each Me and My Meeting booklet:

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Booklet 1 - “Me”, is a booklet designed to gain an insight into the child’s world.

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Booklet 2 – “Me and My meeting”, is a booklet designed for use in social work assessments.

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Booklet 3 - “Me and My Conference”, is a booklet designed to enable  children to speak about their lived experience in a child friendly manner in a Child Protection Conference.

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Booklet 4 - “Me, My Family and Court”, (for younger children) is a booklet designed to support children to tell a judge what their life was like, their hopes and dreams. 

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Booklet 5 'Me, My Family and Court' (for older children) is a booklet designed to support children tell a judge what their life was like, their hopes and dreams. 

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