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Do you know what’s in the news? Keep up to date with all the things you need to know about children’s human rights in England and across the world.

CRAE calls for Equality Bill to include children

The Children’s Rights Alliance for England has today called on the Government to extend legal protection from age discrimination to children.

The Equality Bill, published this week, excludes children from protection from age discrimination in the goods, facilities and …

Read the full article CRAE calls for Equality Bill to include children

Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009

What does your local area know about children’s rights?

Last year, CRAE surveyed all local councils across England to find out what they knew about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We did this to help out our children’s rights champions, so that we could …

Read the full article What does your local area know about children’s rights?

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009

More lessons in sex and relationships education

The Government has agreed to make sure all state schools give students good quality sex and relationships education.

Everyone aged 5 to 16 will now have to take part in personal, social and health education (PSHE) at school. The …

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Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008

Children’s rights activists meet with the Government

On Tuesday 29 July, 60 children and young people met with Government policy makers to talk about human rights issues for children in England.

At this national conference, hosted by CRAE, Read the full article Children’s rights activists meet with the Government

Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008

Article number 23

Disabled children have the right to a full life, and to be part of the community.

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Random fact no 8

For every 100,000 children and young people in the UK, 23 are locked up. This is nearly four times the number of children and young people locked up in France and over 100 times the number of children locked up in Finland!

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