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How well are we respecting children's rights? The United Nations' verdict 2016
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Rights Alliance for England
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the findings of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the UN Committee) on the state of children’s rights in England. The document highlights the progress the Government has made in improving protection and support for children who have been trafficked; reducing teenage pregnancy; strengthening the law on domestic violence; child protection; protecting girls at risk of female genital mutilation; providing help to parents for the care of young children; reducing the educational achievement gap; and reducing the numbers of children who are put in prison after breaking the law. However, the UN Committee also identified areas that require further work and progress, including: ensuring national and local policies take into account the impact they will have on children; ensuring children and young people are listened to and their views considered when a decision is being made that will affect them; addressing the reduction in financial support offered to families with children; ensuring children have a decent place to live; continuity of care for looked after children; children safeguarding and protection; health inequality; support for disabled children and children with special educational needs, including their right to access mainstream schools; and improving policies and support for asylum seeking, refugee and migrant children, trafficked children, and children in trouble with the law. (Edited publisher abstract)
State of children's rights in England: review of Government action on United Nations' recommendations for strengthening children's rights in the UK
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Rights Alliance for England
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 100p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In October 2008, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) issued a report on the UK’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UNCRC report included 118 recommendations applying to children’s rights in England. The aim of this annual report is to summarise key developments in children’s human rights in England from November 2011 to December 2012, specifically analysing the extent to which law, policy and practice is complying with the 118 recommendations. For each recommendation, this report provides a summary of the most important developments over this year. Symbols are used to indicate whether there has been significant improvement or deterioration in law or policy. The recommendations are grouped under the following headings: general measures of implementation; general principles; civil rights and freedoms; family and alternative care; basic health and welfare; education, leisure and cultural activities; and special measures of protection. The findings show that in many areas children’s rights continue to be breached. One area of concern is that moves by government to cut red tape may raise the risk that legislation and guidance central to the protection of children’s rights will be removed or weakened.
State of children's rights in England 2011: review of government action on United Nations' recommendations for strengthening children's rights in the UK
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Rights Alliance for England
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Every 5 years, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) issues a comprehensive report on the UK’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In October 2008, the UNCRC issued 118 recommendations applying to children’s rights in England. The aim of this annual report is to summarise key developments in children’s human rights in England over the 12 months to November 2011, specifically reviewing Government action on these 118 recommendations. For each recommendation, this report provides a summary of the most important developments, both good and bad, over this year. Symbols are used to indicate whether there has been significant improvement or deterioration in law or policy over the year. The recommendations are grouped under the following headings: general measures of implementation; general principles; civil rights and freedoms; family and alternative care; basic health and welfare; education, leisure and cultural activities; and special measures of protection.
UK implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: civil society alternative report 2015 to the UN Committee: England
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Rights Alliance for England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- vi, 42, XXV
- Place of publication:
- London
A comprehensive response by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England to the fifth periodic report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (2014), highlighting how Government policies and spending decisions have failed to prioritise children. The report focuses on general measures of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; inconsistencies in definition of a child in government policy; general principles, including protection from discrimination and right to life; civil rights and freedoms; violence against children; family environment and alternative care; disability and basic health and welfare; education, leisure and cultural activities; and special protection measures. The report suggests that as result of Government policy: millions of children continue to live in poverty; spending on services for children and families has fallen to 2006 levels, despite increasing need; many vulnerable children are no longer entitled to help with legal advice and representation costs, severely limiting their access to justice; and an increasingly hostile environment aimed at migrants means many vulnerable children are facing more restrictive immigration policies, cutting them off from access to justice and from basic services. This report, endorsed by 76 NGOs, contains 172 recommendations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Doing right by children: making a reality of children's rights in the family and juvenile justice
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Rights Alliance for England
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 74p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication makes the case for a consistent rights-based approach to all law, policy and practice affecting children. It discusses the values and attitudes underpinning a children's rights framework, arguing that a children's rights approach is the surest way of meeting children's needs and transforming their social and political status. In particular, the report explores in depth the implications of applying a children's rights approach to 2 areas of children’s lives: the family; and contact with the criminal justice system. It argues that: children's rights, experiences and perspectives must not be lost in the increasing policy focus on the family; and that a completely different approach to juvenile justice is needed, with an outright rejection of retribution and punishment and an end to the criminalisation of children. It argues that, in the approach to the 20th anniversary of the UK's ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), it is time for the Government and those working with children to mainstream children's rights, making sure it underpins all decisions and actions affecting children.