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UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its health and disability green paper to explore how the...
Government should: Consider UN advice on the right to social security. The Committee draws the attention of the State party...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
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: (a) Reduce the use of temporary employment, precarious self-employment and 'zero-hours' contracts. Create opportunities offering security and protection...
Government should: (a) Ensure all migrant workers enjoy equal rights for pay, protection from unfair dismissal, rest and leisure, working...
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: Ensure childcare services are accessible and affordable, particularly in Northern Ireland. Review the system of shared parental leave....
Government should: (a) Ensure disabled parents get the support they need to look after their children, and that disability is...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: (a) Ensure there is sufficient housing (especially social housing), particularly for the most disadvantaged groups, including those on...
Government should: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
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) Ensure that women in abusive situations can receive payments under Universal Credit independent of their partners. (b)...
Government should: in line with advice issued by the UN on women's asylum, nationality and statelessness issues: (a) Introduce a...
Government should: Consult on the possibility of a universal basic income, replacing the current social protection system. As a follow-up...
Government should: Develop strategies to end the poverty of about four million children, as highlighted in shadow reports to the...
Government should: (a) Recognise disabled people’s right to live independently and be included in the community in UK laws, so...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced new funding arrangements for health and social care, including: a...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
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 July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
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: (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: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: Ensure older people receive an adequate pension, care and treatment. Educate all health care workers on the rights...
Government should: (a) Develop a strategy (in consultation with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities) to address the challenges they face...
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: Tackle long-standing discrimination against women in political, economic and social settings, particularly regarding the gender pay gap and...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should work with disabled people's organisations to: (a) Improve and enforce legal accessibility standards across all areas of life,...
Government should: Introduce an action plan to challenge perceptions of disabled people not having ‘a good and decent life’, and...
Government should: Within one year of adopting the present recommendations, provide an update to the CRPD Committee on progress in...
Government should: (a) Bring anti-discrimination laws into line with CRPD. Bring into force any outstanding Equality Act 2010 provisions, including...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...