The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child compels the state to ensure the best interests of children are a primary consideration in all decision making. So why, more than 20 years after the UK ratified it, do we see policies and proposals that will push hundreds of thousands more children into relative poverty and also deny more children with special educational needs an education?
To effectively promote and protect children's rights in line with our statutory remit, at the Office of the Children's Commissioner, we have developed a way to accurately determine the effect changes in policy and practice are likely to have on the lives and rights of children in England: child rights impact assessments. The four assessments we have published to date are having considerable impact.
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