In the report, The UK Review of Effective Government Structures for Children 2001, which was published shortly before the election, the charity described as 'erratic' the Government's commitment to children's human rights in its domestic policies since 1997. It noted that while Wales had appointed a children's commissioner, the Northern Ireland Assembly had made a commitment to establish the role and a committee of the Scottish Parliament was consulting on the idea, there were currently no plans to create a children's commissioner for England.
However, the report acknowledged that Labour had put a 'powerful framework' in place to work for children with last summer's creation of the Cabinet Committee on Children and Young People's Services, the Children and Young People's Unit and the Minister for Young People. It said the Government must now make sure the new structures have 'adequate powers, resources and fearless political backing'.
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