The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has been admirably busy of late. It has recently issued three “general comments”, which are expectations on states that, like the UK, made a commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1991. These commentaries bear careful reading, and are a strong guide to child-aware policy making and practice.
They may even help you in any arguments you are making to defend services and support our youngest citizens. They are published after a Budget that will augment earlier decisions to have cumulative, long-term, negative consequences for some vulnerable children and their families.
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