Our work to promote and protect children's rights is done increasingly in partnerships. Representatives from the Office of the Children's Commissioner and I meet officials and ministers from across government, local government and its partners, the police, NHS and other public services. We know from what they say that we influence how they think. Such exchange of knowledge and expertise is mutual. Everybody gains, including children and young people whose rights we are all championing.
As well as leading our own work on behalf of children, we input into that of others such as thinktanks, task forces, forums and roundtables. Throughout this activity, there are many points of clear, solid consensus about what we all ought to be saying and doing in our own spheres of influence to get children's issues noticed and properly taken into account. Then there are moments when our response is, to enter the vernacular for a moment, "Yer WHAT? Did I hear you right a moment ago? Just run that one past me again!"
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