The report shows the UK has only made significant progress in 10 of the 78 areas where the UN said the country needed to do more to meet the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The report, published yesterday (20 November), said the government should have done more to make people aware of the convention. It also criticised growing inequalities and the holding of some asylum-seeker children in adult detention centres because immigration officials do not accept they are children.
Carolyne Willow, CRAE's national co-ordinator said the State of Children's Rights in England report should act as a wake-up call for the government. "Ministers cannot pick and choose which children to protect or which rights to take action on," she said.
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