CRAE’s national co-ordinator, Mike Lindsay, has written to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with CRAE’s Children’s rights impact assessment of The Children’s Plan One Year On: a progress report. Alongside the Government’s already widely publicised commitments to deliver world-class services for children, Mike Lindsay has called on Ed Balls to mark this year’s 20th anniversary of the United Nation’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by pledging to deliver a world-class commitment to children’s rights.

CRAE believes all proposed legislation and policies affecting children and young people should be systematically assessed by the UK Government for their impact on children’s rights before being adopted. Until this is made a legal requirement, we will aim to publish children’s rights impact statements in relation to major legislative and policy developments that affect children and young people in England.