CRC concluding observations 2023, paragraph 12
Plain English recommendation
Government should: a) Improve the way that information on children is collected, in all areas of their lives, and ensure this includes specific information on their age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic origin, nationality and socioeconomic background; (b) Do more to collect and understand information on: • violence against children • mental health • food insecurity • malnutrition • education • the situation of disadvantaged children, including children in care, disabled children, asylum-seeking and migrant children, and children whose parents are in prison; (c) Collect, understand and publish information on how children are affected by stop-and-search checks, harmful devices, seclusion, restraint, solitary confinement and isolation; (d) Fund a new database system on children in the Overseas Territories; (e) Share all of this information with devolved governments, Overseas Territories, ministries, professional groups and civil society; ensure that it is used to check how well children’s rights are being upheld.
Original UN recommendation
Recognizing the large body of data available on children’s rights, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its data-collection system with regard to both qualitative and quantitative indicators that encompasses all areas of the Convention, and ensure that the data are disaggregated by age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic origin, nationality and socioeconomic background; (b) Improve the collection and analysis of data, including in the Overseas Territories, on violence against children, mental health, food insecurity, malnutrition, education and the situation of children in disadvantaged situations, including children in alternative care, children with disabilities, asylum-seeking and migrant children, and children of incarcerated parents; (c) Regularly collect, analyse and publish disaggregated data on the use of stop-and-search checks, harmful devices, seclusion, restraint, solitary confinement and isolation on children; (d) Allocate sufficient resources for the piloting of an administrative databased system on children in the Overseas Territories; (e) Ensure that the data are shared among devolved administrations and Overseas Territories as well as among relevant ministries, professional groups and civil society and used for the evaluation of policies and projects on children’s rights.
Date of UN examination
18/05/2023
UN article number
4, 42, 44 (6)
Original UN document
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