Get ready for action! Campaigning for children’s rights
Here you can read Get ready for action! a report presenting the findings and recommendations from our three children’s rights campaigns run by young activists on the Get ready project over the last year.
The campaigns focus on three children’s rights issues:
- The right to education for refugee and asylum-seeking children
- Representations of children and young people in the media and the impact of “naming and shaming”
- The quality and availability of counselling support in schools.
The report was launched on Tuesday 2 February at an event in Parliament.
Due to technical problems we are unable to upload the report to the website at the moment. If you would like a copy of the report, please email
Government progress on Get ready recommendations
The Get ready submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in June 2008 contained 14 recommendations that we asked the UN Committee to make to the Government. These were based on the human rights concerns of children and young people in England. We have put together a document outlining what progress has been made on these recommendations in the last year.
Download the progress report here
Get ready for Geneva reports
Here you can find out what children and young people submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about children’s human rights in England, and what we found out from our year-long children’s rights investigation.
Full report on the children’s rights investigation!
You can now read a fuller version of the findings from the children’s rights investigation in the report ‘What do they know? Investigating the human rights concerns of children and young people in England’. This report shows what it is like to grow up in England today, and the barriers which prevent children from accessing their rights at home, in their school and their community.
Read the ‘What do they know?’ report here
