The coalition, led by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England and supported by organisations such as the National Children’s Bureau, Together and Children England, has written to the justice minister Dominic Raab asking for the proposed legislation to be shelved.
Raab sparked controversy last month after he outlined proposals to replace the Human Rights Act (HRA) with a British bill of rights which he said would enable the principle of free speech to become a legal “trump card”.
But the group is warning the introduction of a bill of rights would significantly weaken children’s human rights and the ability of children to hold the government and public bodies to account in cases where their rights had been infringed.
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