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Government should: Withdraw all reservations to the CRC (regarding the applicability of article 22 to the Cayman Islands, article 32...
Children aged 16 and 17 are not always protected as children, and marriage under the age of 18 is still...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure disadvantaged children and children in the Overseas Territories can afford to get online...
Government should: (a) Do more to prevent non-statutory stop-and-search checks being used against children; ban their use in Northern Ireland;...
Government should: (a) Do more to protect children’s right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly, including by removing parts...
Government should: (a) Immediately stop targeting certain groups when using counter-terrorism measures, including by training anyone working in relevant professions,...
Government should: Recognise the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. Do more to ensure that...
Government should: a) Remove barriers, improve legal routes and make it simpler for all children to get residence status and...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children, including younger children, disabled children and children in care, can have a say...
Government should: (a) Reduce the number of deaths of infants and children, including among boys in the Overseas Territories; address...
Government should: (a) Focus on the best interests of the child in all policies and activities that affect children, including...
Government should: a) Take more action to deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination against disadvantaged children, including: • ethnic minority...
Government should: Ensure all children can: (a) Safely make complaints about violence, abuse, discrimination and other violations of their rights,...
Government should: (a) Ban corporal punishment in all settings and remove the legal defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England and...
Government should: (a) Hold businesses responsible for meeting legal standards, including on international and national human rights, labour and the...
Government should: Reintroduce the target of giving 0.7 per cent of gross national income to overseas development and ensure that...
Government should: (a) Introduce a strategy to raise public awareness of children’s rights, making sure to involve children; (b) Train...
Government should: (a) Give national human rights institutions and Children’s Commissioners the powers and resources they need to monitor children’s...
Government should: a) Improve the way that information on children is collected, in all areas of their lives, and ensure...
Government should: Take steps to ensure that children’s rights are considered in all budgeting decisions, and: (a) Set up a...
Government should: Introduce new structures at all levels, such as ministerial leads, with responsibility for putting into practice the rights...
Government should: a) Plan ways to fully put the CRC into practice in all areas, and ensure that children can...
Government should: (a) Take steps to fully incorporate the CRC into national laws in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the...
Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies should consider removing their reservations to articles 22, 32 and 37 (c) of the CRC....
Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...
Government should: (a) Focus on children’s rights in all systems and actions taken to prevent abuse and neglect of children;...
Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...
Government should: (a) Introduce and fund a strategy to ensure children’s right to rest, leisure and recreation; (b) Make children’s...
Government should: Take steps to fully put into practice all of the recommendations, and share a child-friendly version of them...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to put into practice the CRC and other human rights. The Committee...
Government should: Consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention on...
Government should: Agree to the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure. The Committee recommends that the State party, in...
Government should: (a) Consider removing the interpretative declaration on article 1; (b) Consider raising the minimum age of voluntary recruitment...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all children under 18 who are victims of offences under the Optional Protocol are treated...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
Government should: (a) Do more to identify child victims of trafficking and to ensure that child victims are referred to...
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 deal with inequalities in education and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, including by: •...
Government should: (a) Protect children from gang-related violence and knife crime and deal with the problem by: • dealing with...
Government should: (a) Do more to end child poverty and give all children an adequate standard of living, including by...
Government should: (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in line with national and international commitments; (b) Bring in laws on air...
Government should: (a) Ensure all adolescent girls can access family planning services, affordable contraceptives, and safe abortion care without having...
Government should: (a) Urgently update the Mental Health Act to: • ban the detention or placement of children with mental...
Government should: (a) Do more to ensure that all forms of healthcare are available to all children, and that children...
Government should: (a) Review how welfare changes affect disabled children and their families; increase payments so that these changes do...
Government should: (a) Ensure that the best interests of the child are the priority in any decisions about care, including...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Do more to help parents and carers balance their work and family responsibilities, including by providing enough...
Government should: (a) Introduce national strategies to stop harmful practices that affect children, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation...
Government should: Ensure the children’s rights set out in the CRC and its protocols become a reality when the 2030...
Government should: Update its common core document to the UN The Committee also invites the State party to submit an...
Government should: (a) Align UK laws with the CRC so it can be enforced in UK courts and people can...
Government should: Urgently tackle the ‘intolerance of childhood’ and negative public attitudes towards children, especially teenagers, in society and the...
Government should consider UN advice on children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...
Government should: (a) Ban non-statutory stop-and-search checks against children. (b) Ensure statutory stop-and-search checks are proportionate (considering the age and...
Government should: Guarantee children’s right to freedom of movement and peaceful assembly by: (a) Banning the use of acoustic devices...
Government should: Abolish any legal obligation to attend collective worship in state-funded schools. Guarantee children's right to freely decide whether...
Government should: Revise local laws and the British Nationality Act in overseas territories to secure migrant children's right to a...
Government should: Consult children on the voting age. If lowered, strengthen human rights education and early awareness of rights and...
Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: Ensure its international development cooperation is aimed at strengthening the right to free compulsory primary education for all....
Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...
Government should: The Northern Ireland Government should adopt a child rights indicator framework which should cover all CRC rights, and...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...
Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...
Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...
Government should: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 14 January 2022. The Committee invites the State party...
Government should: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...
Government should: Take steps to put into practice these recommendations. Make future state reports to the UN available in all...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to make the CRC and other human rights treaties a reality at...
Government should: Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure to allow children who feel their rights...
Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
Government should: Always video record interviews with child victims/witnesses during investigation. Permit the interviews as evidence in court. The Committee...
Government should: Align the UK's juvenile justice systems in line with UN advice and: (a) Increase the age of criminal...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on children's right to rest, leisure, play and cultural life, ensure all...
Government should: (a) End child poverty and ensure accountability (including through concrete targets). Monitor and report results. (b) Put children...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice on harmful practices, ensure that marriage of 16 and 17-year-olds is based...
Government should: (a) Make laws and adequately fund steps to cut air pollution. (b) Make children’s rights the focus of...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish data on psychotropic drugs (Ritalin, Concerta etc.) prescribed to children. (b) Ensure drugs are...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...
Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...
Government should: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...
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 bullying and violence in schools, through teaching human rights, building respect for diversity and improving conflict-resolution...
Government should: Submit an eighth periodic report by the date to be set by the Committee; the report should be...
