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Government should: Develop a measurable action plan to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK. The Committee recommends...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
There are persistent barriers affecting disabled people’s right to live independently as part of the community. The UK Government has...
Changes to the legal and policy framework are welcome in the areas of transport, housing and social care, and an...
UK Government actions In March 2021, regulations were passed to introduce a new ‘multi-channel approach to health assessments’ for a...
Several permanent welfare reforms introduced by the UK Government, including the two-child limit, have adversely affected the enjoyment of human...
UK Government actions: In September 2022, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy introduced the Retained EU Law (Revocation...
UK Government actions: Between May and August 2022, the UK Government submitted several reports to the UN: its report for...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the UK Government published a response to its consultation on raising accessibility standards for...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...
Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the UK, with no significant improvements in people’s outcomes over recent years....
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: Prevent homelessness by taking steps to ensure that everyone can access decent housing without discrimination. Take concrete measures...
Government should: Ensure that minorities and migrants have equal access to employment, housing, public health and education, improving their quality...
Government should: Introduce an emergency poverty strategy to deal with the impact of rising costs on child poverty and access...
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, including devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, should: Take action to combat ongoing poverty, which harms ethnic...
UK Government actions In September 2021, the UK Government announced significant new funding arrangements for health and social care; £5.4...
Although rates of relative poverty have remained static for working-age adults, the number of children living in relative poverty and...
Government should: (a) Fund disabled people's organisations and involve them in planning and implementing all laws affecting disabled people (including...
Government should: In line with UN advice on poverty and the ICESCR, guarantee support to all those living in (or...
Government should: Consult with disabled children's organisations to develop and put into practice policies for: (a) Tackling high poverty levels...
Government should: (a) Produce a thorough plan for reducing the risk of disasters. Develop strategies to ensure disabled people can...
Government should: Work with disabled people's organisations, and in line with the CRPD Committee's recommendations following its inquiry into the...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
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) 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: Provide local authorities with sufficient funds to reduce homelessness, particularly in England and Northern Ireland. Ensure there are...
UK Government actions In July 2021, the UK Government published its health and disability green paper to explore how the...
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: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
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: 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: Take further action to end child poverty, and align laws with the CRC. Increase efforts to eliminate child...
Government should: Take further action to end child poverty. Assess the impacts of welfare reform on children from disadvantaged families....
Government should: Review and remove any law that discriminates against migrant groups or that limits the rights of asylum seekers,...
