There are encouraging signs that the political climate is becoming more favourable towards children and their rights. Wales has appointed a children's commissioner and Northern Ireland and Scotland will soon follow.
The Government has continued to resist repeated calls for a Children's Rights Commissioner for England. This is not to say, however, that it has failed to address children's rights altogether.
Although it is over ten years since the UK ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are still not being accorded the full range of rights they are entitled to. While the Government has taken steps to implement parts of the convention, when the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) produces its concluding comments soon, it is certain to find the Government wanting in a number of areas, especially juvenile justice, education, asylum seekers and refugees.
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