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Children: UNCRC Observations

Answer

The UK Government will seek appropriate dialogues with a range of partners and organisations when considering the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's concluding observations, including children and young people. This process includes a seminar on 29 July 2008 that the Department for Children, Schools and Families is jointly hosting with UNICEF UK and Get Ready for Geneva. The seminar will look at the issues raised in Get Ready for Geneva’s children and young people’s report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and consider how they can be addressed. The seminar will be attended by children and young people, representatives from non-governmental organisations working for children's rights, the Minister for Children, Young People and Families and officials from across the Government. It would be at disproportionate cost to disaggregate the full funding spent on activities related to UNCRC over the past five years. However, in England, funding for events, communications and publications solely on UNCRC in 2006-07 was a total of £107,397, and in 2007-08 it was £61,839. There are a wide range of other participatory activities funded by the Government which will have related to UNCRC, but we are not able to disaggregate these to set out the precise spend on the convention. In addition, the Government have, through the children, young people and families grant programme, provided £181,000 in 2007-08 and £178,000 in 2008-09 to UNICEF UK for an expansion and independent evaluation of its Rights Respecting Schools Award scheme. A further £162,000 has been awarded to UNICEF UK through the grant for 2009-10. The department also provided the British Institute of Human Rights with £24,912 to expand the ““Right Hear, Right Now”” key stage 3 human rights teaching resource to include specific lesson plans for understanding and applying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The resource was formally launched in July 2008. Funding to key partners in Scotland who undertake activities on UNCRC is as follows:

	Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights	Article 12 in Scotland	Children's Parliament
2004-05	£0	£12,500	£0
2005-06	£2,400	£50,000	£73,100
2006-07	£18,000	£51,250	£74,928
2007-08	£13,800	£53,813	£121,660
2008-09	£24,000	£55,475	£93,660

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

5096; 703 c325-6WA

Session

2007-08

Notes

Answer received between Tuesday 5 August and Monday 11 August 2008

Subjects

Children's rights Finance Education Publicity UN Convention on the Rights of the Child UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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