CRAE will be working throughout the 2010/11 Parliamentary session to highlight significant threats and opportunities for children’s human rights, and to support Parliamentarians to strengthen legal protection for children’s human rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other human rights instruments. CRAE's briefing on the Queen’s Speech highlights key children’s rights issues in the following Bills being considered in the 2010/11 Parliamentary session:

• Academies Bill
• Armed Forces Bill
• Decentralisation and Local Government Bill
• Education and Children’s Bill
• Freedom (Great Repeal) Bill
• Health Bill
• Identity Documents Bill
• Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
• Public Bodies Reform Bill
• Welfare Reform Bill

Read the briefing here

Please contact Sam Dimmock, CRAE’s head of policy and public affairs, if you need any further information, at sdimmock@crae.org.uk.