UN Committee On the Rights of the Child

(asked on 12th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on implementing the recommendations made to the Government by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in June 2016.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 20th July 2017

We responded to the UNCRC’s concluding observations through a Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) published on 17 October 2016. The WMS is available online at:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Lords/2016-10-17/HLWS197/.

That WMS encourages other government departments to read the recommendations and take them into account. It also outlines a framework of actions that my department is taking forward.

To support this work, my department has set up a UNCRC Action Group, which is developing cross-Whitehall training on children rights and has funded Children’s Rights Alliance England to publish child friendly versions of the concluding observations.

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