A new commissioner for victims and survivors in Northern Ireland has been appointed.<\/p>\n
The first minister and deputy first minister said Joe McVey would take up the post on 6 October for four years.<\/p>\n
Mr McVey, a former chief executive of Brain Injury Matters (NI), was awarded an OBE for services to the voluntary sector.<\/p>\n
First Minister Michelle O’Neill said they were confident Mr McVey would be a “dedicated champion and powerful advocate for the rights and needs of all those who have suffered”.<\/p>\n
O’Neill congratulated Mr McVey on his appointment, and said victims and survivors deserved a “strong, independent voice to ensure their needs are recognised and prioritised”.<\/p>\n
Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said: “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.”<\/p>\n
The principal aim of the commissioner is to safeguard and promote the interests of victims and survivors. The work is categorised under three areas – addressing the past, effective service provision, and building towards a better and more reconciled future.<\/p>\n
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
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":"A new commissioner for victims and survivors in Northern Ireland has been appointed. The first minister and deputy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-319000","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\/114974498785902969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319000","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=319000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}