{"id":317683,"date":"2025-08-04T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:21:10","slug":"joe-mcvey-appointed-new-victims-commissioner-for-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317683\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe McVey appointed new victims commissioner for Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Neill congratulated Mr McVey on his appointment, and said victims and survivors deserved a &#8220;strong, independent voice to ensure their needs are recognised and prioritised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said: &#8220;Ensuring that the needs of victims and survivors is at the heart of our trauma informed, victim-centred service is the key component to this vital work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The principal aim of the commissioner is to safeguard and promote the interests of victims and survivors. The work is categorised under three areas &#8211; addressing the past, effective service provision, and building towards a better and more reconciled future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The position is full time for a term of four years with eligibility of one renewal for a second term of office, subject to satisfactory performance. The salary is \u00a379,237 per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last victims commissioner Ian Jeffers stepped down at the end of 2023. He took up the post the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill congratulated Mr McVey on his appointment, and said victims and survivors deserved a &#8220;strong, independent voice to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971652138474032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}