Children's rights have been a long time in development. But now there iswidespread adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights ofthe Child. Article 31 sets out the right of the child "to rest andleisure, to engage in play and recreational activities". You can't getmuch clearer.
So why did the North Wales branch of the association feel it necessaryto argue for a not very meaningful "right to childhood"? As defined bywhom? And protected how?
Perhaps instead of passing motions at conferences, they should committhemselves to devising practical ways to uphold existing children'srights.
- Piers Morgan, ex-Mirror editor, is now fronting a new magazine forchildren, First News. When Jan Moir, profile writer for the DailyTelegraph interviewed him, he denied that a children's newspaper is aworthy, strictly middle-class notion of limited appeal to themasses.
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