While warmly welcoming its main aims, The Agency remains concerned that the green paper does not adequately distinguish between the needs and interests of young people and those of children, and the different vulnerabilities that occur between birth and the age of 19.
Other areas of concern for The Agency are:
- The lack of attention to children and young people as holders of human rights, to be afforded equal dignity and respect. The Government should use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as key to any strategic framework.
- The overall tone of the document, which presents children and young people as passive recipients of adult attention, of welfare not rights, of being either victim or villain and as future adults rather than citizens now
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