CYP Now - Analysis: Children's Rights - Children to take agenda forward

While the UK is signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, its track record in this area has not always been good. But a new project aims to change this with young people themselves taking a pivotal role. Asha Goveas investigates.

The UK locks up more children than almost any other industrialisedcountry. Immigration services are not required by law to protect thewelfare of young asylum seekers and, unlike many other EU countries,it's still legal for children to be smacked.

Children's rights in the UK are in a poor state, say campaigners,because the country is yet to take seriously the UN Convention on theRights of the Child.

Adopted by the UN in 1989 and ratified by the UK in 1991, the conventionspells out basic rights to which children everywhere are entitled. Allmember governments have signed up to it with the exception of the US andSomalia.

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