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So How Are We Doing? A Review of the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: United Kingdom
Published in:
Children & Society, Vol: 17, Page: 71-74,Blackwell Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
2003
Aims & Objectives:
This article discusses the "United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child" issued response to the British government's submission on the progress made in respect of the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Abstract:
On October 4, 2002, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its response to the British government's submission on the progress made in respect of the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Signatories to the Convention on the Rights of the Child are required to present a periodic report every five years. However, due to delays in the work of the Committee itself, this is the first independent scrutiny of developments since the British government's initial submission in 1995, which means that this systematic analysis of policy initiatives and legislative change both predates and covers the entire period in which the Labour government has been in office. In a sense, it can be presented as a children's rights report card for New Labour. The report welcomes several pieces of legislation and new policy initiatives including the Human Rights Act 1998; the establishment of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; new race relations legislation in the different nations; the creation of the Children and Young People's Unit in England and complementary structures in the devolved nations; the abolition of school corporal punishment in England, Wales and Scotland; and the promotion of children's rights in the British international aid policies. These are positive moves which rightly receive recognition. However, in a 17-page document, referral to these substantive measures is squeezed into a single paragraph, and the remainder of the British Committee's report focuses on its principal concerns, namely the chief of which is the government's failure to address similar, and sometimes identical. concerns and recommendations made in 1995.
Authors:
Lisa Payne
Study Type:
Non Study Papers » Discussion paper, review, commentary, letter »
Notes:
Article 09510605 Accession Number: 12063830; Payne, Lisa 1; Affiliations: 1: Principal Policy Officer, National Children's Bureau Source Info: Jan2003, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p71; Thesaurus Term: CHILDREN'S rights; Thesaurus Term: CHILDREN; Thesaurus Term: CHILD welfare; Subject Term: LEGAL status, laws, etc.; Subject Term: UNITED Nations; Subject Term: GREAT Britain; Number of Pages: 4p. Document Type: Article
Keywords:
- Child Welfare
- Children
- CHILDREN''S rights
- CHILDREN''S rights
- Great Britain
- LEGAL status, laws, etc.
- UNITED Nations
Geography:
Republic of Ireland (ational Children's Bureau Source)