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Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Stop using ‘fighting terrorism’ to justify violating Syrian sovereignty; bring back to the UK any UK nationals who...
Government should: (a) Do more to help parents and carers balance their work and family responsibilities, including by providing enough...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Ensure that the best interests of the child are the priority in any decisions about care, including...
Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...
Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: Ratify the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to ensure everyone can play a part...
Government should: Support the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. Promote policies to support the family as...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...
Government should: Respect the rights of parents to raise and educate their children, in line with the Convention on the...
Government should: Introduce a national strategy to improve children’s access to health, education, culture and justice, in particular for vulnerable...
Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...
Government should: Review immigration law so that it facilitates family reunification for unaccompanied refugee children, putting the best interests of...
Government should: Change immigration law and policy to allow for family reunification for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Amend the immigration regulations...
Government should: Amend asylum laws to explicitly allow family reunification. Amend asylum laws to explicitly provide for family reunification...
Government should: Take all necessary steps to ensure everyone enjoys the right to privacy and freedom of expression. This aligns...
Government should: Review and change its laws, including the Public Order Act 2023, to ensure people can enjoy their right...
Government should: (a) Ban corporal punishment in all settings and remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England and...
The UK Government has introduced some positive reforms in relation to family life, including action to tackle child marriage and...
Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
Government should: (a) Ensure the law provides for 'no-fault' divorce and introduce a requirement that all religious marriages, including Islamic...
Government should: (a) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: (a) Ratify and implement the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind,...
Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: Adopt an Irish language act. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (see E/C.12/GBR/CO/5, para. 37) and recommends that...
Government should: (a) Review laws on intercepting and storing personal communications in line with the ICCPR, including article 17. Any...
Government should: (a) Ensure that affordable and accessible childcare is available throughout the UK, particularly in Northern Ireland. (b) Consider...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...
UK Government actions In June 2021, the UK Government committed to raise the minimum age for people to marry in...
Government should: Revise local laws and the British Nationality Act in overseas territories to secure migrant children's right to a...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
Government should ensure poverty is never the sole reason for removing a child from parental care, consider UN advice on...
Government should: (a) Ensure child protection authorities are informed when a parent is imprisoned, to prevent children being left unattended....
Government should: Protect the family as a core unit of society. Provide protection to the family as a natural and...
Government should: Update immigration laws to limit the amount of time migrants and asylum seekers can be detained. Consider revising...
Government should: Change the law to help reunite child asylum seekers and refugees in the UK with their families. Reform...
Government should: Take action to ensure unaccompanied children who are refugees or resettled in the UK can be reunited with...
Government should: Take effective measures to prevent and combat racism and racial discrimination, hatred and violence in sports. It should...
