Judging by its record over the past 12 years, the landscape of Welsh youth policy might have looked very different without its wide-ranging influence.
Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as its backbone, Children in Wales, headed by chief executive Catriona Williams, is an independent lobbying and advisory charity to the Welsh Assembly Government. Sixty per cent funded by the assembly, which gave it 410,000 in 2003-04, it has 200 members, including local authorities, hospitals and peer-led youth organisations. The assembly gave Children in Wales additional money to create an advocacy organisation, Tros Gynnal, to provide continuity when The Children's Society pulled out of the country in 2002.
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