The list, published on CRAE’s website today (21 September), is based on a framework that was backed by more than 130 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 2001 and complies with the principles for national human rights institutions adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, known as the Paris Principles.
CRAE is gathering support for the position as evidence for submission to the Independent Review of the Office of the Children's Commissioner, currently being undertaken by John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
"Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats consistently and forcefully advocated a powerful, rights-based commissioner when the legislation passed through Parliament in 2004," said Carolyne Willow, CRAE’s national co-ordinator.
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