This "overriding concern" has been highlighted by a group of children'scharities in response to the consultation on the strategy, which is dueto be published in February 2006.
Charities were promised the strategy would be a rights-based documentthat would implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.However, Children in Northern Ireland, Barnardo's, Save the Children andthe Children's Law Centre have raised concerns that references have been"watered down".
Pip Jaffa, chief executive of Children in Northern Ireland, warned thatpolicy-makers and services would not be adequately held to account as aresult. "It should have been laid out so the monitoring of the strategytakes place against children's rights and not just their needs," shesaid.
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