This website has been designed to help local practitioners, policy makers, managers and strategists develop their understanding of children's rights and how to adopt a children's rights perspective to their work.
Children's Rights in Wales is produced by Save the Children with part funding from the Welsh Government. Many of our partners in particular the Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group are involved in the continued development of this web resource.
How to use this website
The site has been structured so that navigation through the material is as simple as possible.
- About children's rights
this section provides information on children's rights, human rights and children's rights in relation to UK legislation.
- Children's rights in Wales
presents a picture of what is happening with regards to implementing the UNCRC in Wales.
- News and events
updates the user with regular news and events on children's rights in Wales and further afield.
- Education and training
provides regular updates on training and education developments for professionals, parents/carers and children and young people and elected members and other lay officials on children's rights.
- Library
this is a developing database of children's rights resources that have been developed in Wales, UK wide and internationally.
- Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group
provides information on the national alliance of NGOs and their ongoing monitoring of Government’s implementation of the UNCRC.
- Public services
is an area of the website that has been designed to assist public services across Wales mainstream children's rights in their service delivery.
- Learning from practice
a developing database of examples on how others are responding to the challenge of implementing children's rights in Wales, UK-wide and internationally.