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Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...
Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...
Government should: Pursue efforts in protecting indigenous people and minorities by ensuring the provision and adequate and appropriate accommodation [and]...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: (a) Remove the ‘Hostile Environment’ policy and ensure children without regular residence status can get legal help, social...
Government should: (a) Urgently change the Illegal Migration Bill: take out any provisions that would lead to violations of children’s...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...
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 reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: Keep developing policies and activities to protect the human rights of people living in poverty Continue to develop...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
UK Government actions In March 2021, regulations were passed to introduce a new ‘multi-channel approach to health assessments’ for a...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced new funding arrangements for health and social care, including: a...
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. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Put more funding into the welfare state and other ways to reduce poverty. Allocate more resources for poverty...
Government should: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...
Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...
Government should: Take further action to protect ethnic minorities and migrants from discrimination and ensure they can access benefits and...
Government, including the governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Provide adequate and culturally appropriate accommodation for Gypsy, Traveller,...
Government should: Take all steps to ensure affordable, adequate housing for ethnic minority households, including social housing. It should also...
Government, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic...
Government should: (a) Revise laws and policies and stop using practices that cause particular impact among ethnic groups. This includes...
Government should: Increase efforts to remove all combustible cladding from buildings where it risks lives. It should also protect the...
Government should continue work to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic and sexual violence. It should ensure comprehensive...
Government should: Ensure migrants and minority ethnic groups enjoy the right to health and a decent standard of living. ...
Government should: Take action to ensure disabled people’s rights, in particular to an adequate standard of living and access to...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: Put the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into practice by introducing a strategy to end...
Government should: Do more to protect children from physical punishment and ensure their right to an adequate standard of living,...
Government should: Introduce a national anti-poverty strategy and end child poverty. Develop a comprehensive nationwide anti-poverty strategy and eliminate child...
Government should: Focus social policies more on disadvantaged families, and in particular their children; introduce a national strategy to end...
Government should: Take action to ensure that women and girls have access to education, healthcare and other support services in...
Government should: Remove structural barriers to racial and ethnic minority community, equal and non-discrimination enjoyment of human rights, including the...
Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...
Government should: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Consult on the possibility of a universal basic income, replacing the current social protection system. As a follow-up...
Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: Ensure economic, social and cultural rights are a reality for people living in the UK and in all...
Government should: (a) Review conditions attached to social security benefits. Reverse the cuts introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012...
Government should: Extend the national living wage to under 25s. Set it at a level which provides workers and their...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
Government should: (a) Reduce the use of temporary employment, precarious self-employment and 'zero-hours' contracts. Create opportunities offering security and protection...
Government should: Increase support for asylum seekers (including daily allowances) to guarantee their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular...
Government should: Use all available resources to make economic, social and cultural rights a reality for everyone. In line with...
Government should: (a) Assess how recent tax policy changes have affected human rights, including the rights of disadvantaged groups. Ensure...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CRPD Committee on progress in...
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) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...
Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Consider UN advice on the right to social security. The Committee draws the attention of the State party...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: Do more so that disadvantaged people can access public, social and health services. Strengthen measures to foster access...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: Devise policies to help disadvantaged families, in particular children, to boost social mobility. Provide more targeted social policies...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
Government should: (a) Ensure child protection authorities are informed when a parent is imprisoned, to prevent children being left unattended....
Government should ensure poverty is never the sole reason for removing a child from parental care, consider UN advice on...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) Ensure there is sufficient housing (especially social housing), particularly for the most disadvantaged groups, including those on...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...
Government should: (a) Ensure that women in abusive situations can receive payments under Universal Credit independent of their partners. (b)...
Government should: Look at how changes to public spending, tax and welfare are affecting women’s rights. They should take urgent...
Government should: Ensure older people receive an adequate pension, care and treatment. Educate all health care workers on the rights...
Government should: Develop a national strategy on the right to adequate food. Promote healthy diets, including supporting breastfeeding. Introduce higher...
Government should: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
Government should: Review and remove any law that discriminates against migrant groups or that limits the rights of asylum seekers,...
