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Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...
Although rates of relative poverty have remained static for working-age adults, the number of children living in relative poverty and...
Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the UK, with no significant improvements in people’s outcomes over recent years....
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...
Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...
Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...
Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should: Remove structural barriers to racial and ethnic minority community, equal and non-discrimination enjoyment of human rights, including the...
Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...
Government should: Introduce a national anti-poverty strategy and end child poverty. Develop a comprehensive nationwide anti-poverty strategy and eliminate child...
Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...
Government should: Put the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into practice by introducing a strategy to end...
Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Ensure migrants and minority ethnic groups enjoy the right to health and a decent standard of living. ...
Government should: (a) Revise laws and policies and stop using practices that cause particular impact among ethnic groups. This includes...
Government, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its health and disability green paper to explore how the...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
Government should: (a) Assess how recent tax policy changes have affected human rights, including the rights of disadvantaged groups. Ensure...
Government should: Use all available resources to make economic, social and cultural rights a reality for everyone. In line with...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: Extend the national living wage to under 25s. Set it at a level which provides workers and their...
Government should: (a) Review conditions attached to social security benefits. Reverse the cuts introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012...
Government should: Consider UN advice on the right to social security. The Committee draws the attention of the State party...
Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...
Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...
Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should ensure poverty is never the sole reason for removing a child from parental care, consider UN advice on...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
Government should: Review and remove any law that discriminates against migrant groups or that limits the rights of asylum seekers,...
