evidence: NICCY: Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People [...] 164. In relation to the particular circumstances, the Women’s Policy Group Northern Ireland highlighted a range of areas where they thought Northern Ireland lagged behind other jurisdictions. They said that it is ‘the only part of the UK or Ireland that is without Government-funded childcare provision and without a strategy for violence against women and girls’, also mentioning the lack of a domestic abuse commissioner and inadequate perinatal mental health services. [...] Children’s rights 312. The children and young people who gave evidence to the Committee from the NI Youth Forum and the NICCY Youth Panel unanimously called for a bill of rights to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Naomi Sloan of the NI Youth Forum discussed her family’s difficulties in securing the necessary support to realise a right to education.