These two reservations permitted the UK to lock up children with adults, and denied young refugees and asylum seekers the same human rights as other children and young people living in this country.
The removal of these two reservations is a good step forward in recognising children's rights in the UK, and there have been other positive steps this year. Two painful restraint techniques used on children in custody have been suspended. The government's Aiming High for Young People: 10-Year Strategy is one of the first to reference the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Even the response of the press has been, in places, encouraging.
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