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Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...
The UK Government has taken some policy and legislative steps to address aspects of violence, abuse and neglect, including its...
Government should: Encourage Northern Ireland to align its law on sexual and reproductive health services and rights with the rest...
UK Government actions In September 2021, Public Health England published updated guidance on preventing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in...
The UK Government has committed to introducing a new Mental Health Bill and implementing new laws to prevent the use...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced the new Health and Social Care Levy to help pay...
Record NHS waiting lists and worsening waiting times before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have limited access to healthcare. There is...
There is evidence that certain groups experience persistent inequalities in accessing healthcare in Wales, but a lack of data separated...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...
There are persistent barriers affecting disabled people’s right to live independently as part of the community. The UK Government has...
Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...
UK Government actions In June 2021, Ofsted published the findings of a UK Government-commissioned review of sexual abuse in schools...
The Welsh Government has taken some positive policy and legislative steps, including a range of actions to address childhood adversity....
Government should: Provide reproductive health care for all women and girls, in line with CEDAW. Government should: Provide reproductive health...
UK Government actions In October 2020, the UK Government updated the ‘headteachers’ standards’, which set baseline expectations for professional practice...
While the introduction of compulsory relationships and sex education (RSE) may create further opportunities for schools to teach children about...
There have been a number of positive legislative and policy changes to increase education and awareness of the UN Convention...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published a revised draft of its statutory guidance for schools, ‘Keeping...
The UK Government’s new relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education guidance is welcome, as is action taken in...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make relationships and sexuality education a statutory component of the new curriculum – ensuring...
UK Government actions In December 2020, NHS England published revised guidance on visitor restrictions in maternity units during the coronavirus...
Funding cuts to the public health grant have affected sexual and reproductive health budgets, access to services across England varies,...
The Welsh Government has legislated to make it mandatory for all school children aged 5–16 to learn about sexual and...
UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...
UK Government actions: In August 2022, the UK Government published its Women’s Health Strategy for England, detailing ambitions for improvements...
Government should: Ensure the abortion law in Northern Ireland is in line with international human rights law. Decriminalise abortion and...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: Urgently amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland. Extend exceptions to the abortion ban to include cases of rape,...
Government should: Amend its abortion law. Guarantee women's right to reproductive and sexual autonomy without legalising selective abortion due to...
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should: Reverse all laws and practices allowing any form of forced medical care or surgery. Ensure disabled people (especially...
Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Develop a fully-funded action plan to improve disabled people’s access to...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: Ensure temporary or undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and Roma, Gypsies and Travellers can access all necessary health...
Government should: Promote a full health service (including mental health) in line with the duty introduced by the Health and...
Government should: Ensure older people receive an adequate pension, care and treatment. Educate all health care workers on the rights...
Government should: Amend abortion laws in Northern Ireland in line with women's rights to health, life and dignity. Consider UN...
Government should: Take action to prevent suicides, including suicides and self-harm in custody, by: (a) tackling the root causes of...
Government should: Implement programmes and policies that provide effective access to healthcare for women from marginalised groups, particularly asylum-seeking and...
Government should: Further strengthen the Equality Act, particularly to provide better health services to disadvantaged groups such as migrants. Further...
Government should: Take steps to ensure people belonging to ethnic minorities have full access to quality health care. Take steps...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...
Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish data on psychotropic drugs (Ritalin, Concerta etc.) prescribed to children. (b) Ensure drugs are...
Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...
Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CERD Committee on progress in...
Government should: Review the Equality Act in relation to to gender identity, and ensure intersex people can access health services....
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
UK Government actions: In June 2022, the UK Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. This aims...
