We are just a few weeks away from the 25th anniversary of the UN General Assembly ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). We have been a ratified state party to this binding treaty since the UK government took it through parliament in 1991. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will next call us to Geneva to be held to account against it, as a nation, less than two years from now, in summer 2016.
Now the world's most-signed human rights treaty, the UNCRC lies at the heart of my work as children's commissioner for England, that of any other commissioner or ombudsman for children. Its promises are made to every child, not just the lucky few.
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