Welcoming Dunford’s recommendations, Carolyne Willow, national director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, said, if undertaken, the proposals for reforming the Office of the Children’s Commissioner would ensure England is a country that properly respects the rights of children and young people.
"Ministers today have given children and young people in England two huge hopes – first that they should, in a matter of months, have their own powerful champion who will promote and protect their rights and make sure those in power hear and respond to their views," she said. "Second, that ministers across government will from now on be systematically assessing proposed laws and policies for their compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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