UNCRC:
Do the Right Thing: the Scottish Government has released its response to the UN Committee's Concluding Observations. Click here to download a copy of the report.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has released its Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the State of children and young people's rights in the UK.
The report highlights a number of areas where the UK Government is failing to make rights a reality for all children and young people. Subjects covered include: Child Poverty, Juvenille Justice, including ASBOs in relation to freedom of assembly rights, Mental Health, Discrimination of Roma and Gypsy/Travellers, Asylum, Corporal Punishment, LGBT Youth, Looked After children and young people, Participation Rights: the right to voice an opinion, and have that opinion taken into account.
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