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Incorporating the UNCRC into Scottish law

2 mins read Guest Blog
Children deserve special protection - it is a common value shared across the world and agreed within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the most ratified international treaty in history.

The UNCRC is founded on the concept that all children should grow up in a family environment of happiness, love and understanding. It contains a broad array of rights designed to ensure children are treated with dignity and fairness; that they are protected; that they develop to their full potential and can participate in their communities. This is what respective UK governments have promised to children for decades.

But children’s rights must be enforceable to be effective and it has been too easy for governments to speak the language of children’s rights while remaining reluctant to pass laws which allow us to hold them to account.

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