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Submission to the UN CRC 88th Session on the Sixth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on compliance with the UN CRC

Read the Commission’s submission Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 88th Session on the Sixth Periodic Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Date produced December 2020.

Below is a summary of what is contained in the submission.

You can also download the full document through the links provided.

2.0 Article 2 – Non-discrimination- Discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services

4.0 Article 4 – Implementation of UN CRC Implementation within domestic law

• Bill of Rights
• UK’s withdrawal from the EU
• Child-specific strategies
• NI Commissioner for Children and Young People
• Article 6 – Right to Life
• Infant Mortality
• Article 12 – Right to Express Views
• Participation of Children
• Article 16 – Right to Privacy
• Stop and Search
• Anonymity
• Article 18 – Childcare Services
• Childcare provision
• Childcare strategy
• Articles 19 and 37 – Torture, Abuse and Exploitation
• Spit and bite guards
• Physical punishment of children
• Domestic abuse
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Intersex Genital Mutilation
• Bullying
• Paramilitary activities
• Articles 20, 21 and 25 – Children in Care
• Children in Care strategy
• Children reported missing from care
• Adoption
• Foster care

Article 22 – Refugee Status

• Refugee resettlement and integration
• Refugee integration

Article 23 – Children with Disabilities

• Supported employment
• Autism strategy

Article 24 – Health

• Mental Health
• Mental capacity
• Termination of pregnancy
• Relationships, sexuality and gender identity education

Article 26 – Social Security Cumulative impact assessment

• Two-child limit
• Mitigation package

Article 27 – Adequate Standard of Living

• Child poverty
• Housing
• Access to food
• Asylum financial support

Articles 28 and 29 - Education

• Use of restraint
• Special educational needs
• COVID-19
• Academic selection
• Traveller, Roma and children from migrant families
• Integrated education
• Shared education

Article 31 – Rest and Leisure

• Travellers’ accommodation

Article 32 – Employment

• Pathway programmes
• Article 40 – Criminal Justice System
• Age of criminal responsibility
• Remand of children
• Regional Care and Justice Campus

Article 34 – Sexual Exploitation

• Child sexual exploitation
• Child marriage

21.0 Optional Protocol – Armed Conflict