1. Context
• Children and young people in Ireland
• The Department of Children and Youth Affairs – Its Mission, Mandate and Structure
• Operating environment
2. Strategic Objectives, Values and Critical Success Factors
• Strategic objectives
• Values
• Critical success factors
3. Making things better for children and young people in Ireland – The challenge of implementation
4. Building internal capacity
• Leadership and communication
• Governance and accountability
• Policy evaluation, review and development
• Legislative skills
• Next steps – Monitoring progress
References
Appendices
• Appendix 1: Objectives, activities and outputs, 2011-2014
• Appendix 2: List of transfer of functions orders
• Appendix 3: DCYA organisation chart
• Appendix 4: Agencies directly funded by DCYA
• Appendix 5: Submissions received
• Appendix 6: Programme for Government