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Government should: Withdraw all reservations to the CRC (regarding the applicability of article 22 to the Cayman Islands, article 32...
Government should: (a) Take action to reduce the impact of social background or disabilities on children's achievements in school. Guarantee...
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: Adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a strategy for the inclusion of disabled children in...
Government should: Develop strategies on improving child health in line with UN advice on children's right to health and: (a)...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish data on psychotropic drugs (Ritalin, Concerta etc.) prescribed to children. (b) Ensure drugs are...
Government should: (a) Put in place a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents, focusing on improving equality and...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child nutrition (including on breastfeeding and weight problems) to identify the causes of food...
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: (a) In line with UN advice on children's right to rest, leisure, play and cultural life, ensure all...
Government should: (a) Tackle bullying and violence in schools, through teaching human rights, building respect for diversity and improving conflict-resolution...
Government should: Consider UN advice on unaccompanied and separated children and: (a) Collect and publish data on the number of...
Government should: Align the UK's juvenile justice systems in line with UN advice and: (a) Increase the age of criminal...
Government should: Always video record interviews with child victims/witnesses during investigation. Permit the interviews as evidence in court. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...
Government should: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a complaints procedure to allow children who feel their rights...
Government should: Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties: the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All...
Government should: Work with the Council of Europe to make the CRC and other human rights treaties a reality at...
Government should: Take steps to put into practice these recommendations. Make future state reports to the UN available in all...
Government should: Submit the UK's next report to the UN by 14 January 2022. The Committee invites the State party...
Government should: Update its common core document to the UN The Committee also invites the State party to submit an...
Government should: Assess the impact on children's rights of funding cuts for childcare and family support. Review family support policies...
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) 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: (a) Update and implement the UK-wide 'Working Together, Achieving More' strategy (2009) to include all rights in the...
Government should: Ensure proper funding, clear timelines and monitoring of the 'Working Together, Achieving More', and 'Programme for Children and...
Government should: (a) Make it compulsory to assess the impact on children's rights when developing laws and policies affecting children...
Government should: (a) Set up statutory bodies with sufficient authority in each of the devolved administrations and overseas territories to...
Government should: Invest all available resources to make children’s rights a reality for every child across the UK, focusing especially...
Government should: The Northern Ireland Government should adopt a child rights indicator framework which should cover all CRC rights, and...
Government should: (a) Strengthen the independence of Children’s Commissioners in line with the Paris Principles and UN advice on the...
Government should: Ensure its international development cooperation is aimed at strengthening the right to free compulsory primary education for all....
Government should: (a) Revise the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to make businesses consider their impact on...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years across all devolved administrations and overseas territories. The Committee...
Government should: (a) Consider expanding the law to protect all under 18s from age-based discrimination. (b) Regularly review the use...
Government should: End discriminatory laws in overseas territories against children who are 'non-belongers', including migrant children, and children born out...
Government should: (a) Collect and publish disaggregated data on child exploitation and abuse. Make reporting on child exploitation and abuse...
Government should: (a) Ensure children's best interests are prioritised in all policies, laws and legal proceedings affecting them. Consider UN...
Government should: (a) Tackle the root causes of infant and child mortality, including deprivation and inequality. (b) Carry out automatic,...
Government should: (a) Systematically and meaningfully involve children in decision making, both locally and nationally, in all matters relating to...
Government should: Consult children on the voting age. If lowered, strengthen human rights education and early awareness of rights and...
Government should: Revise local laws and the British Nationality Act in overseas territories to secure migrant children's right to a...
Government should: Abolish any legal obligation to attend collective worship in state-funded schools. Guarantee children's right to freely decide whether...
Government should: Guarantee children’s right to freedom of movement and peaceful assembly by: (a) Banning the use of acoustic devices...
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 consider UN advice on children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: (a) Revise the Children and Young Persons Act (1933) to protect all under 18s from abuse and neglect...
Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...
