Following the last report by the UK State Party and the receipt of the UN Committee’s Concluding Observations, the Welsh Assembly Government has been working closely with the UNCRC NGO Monitoring Group, Children’s Commissioner for Wales and other national and local partners to develop a coordinated approach to driving forward implementation of the Convention over the next 5 years via an agreed UNCRC Action Plan for Wales ‘Getting it Right’.
This will form part of a wider action plan for the UK (as recommended at para 15 of the concluding observations of the CRC). It has been agreed with partners that the agreed Priorities for Wales will form the backbone of the action plan produced. This will ensure that the plan is realistic, achievable and relevant to Welsh priorities.
Both the UK Statement of Intent and the Action Plan for Wales will be launched on 20th November 2009 to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the UNCRC and Universal Children’s Day. The Action Plan for Wales will be officially launched at a small scale celebratory event at the Senedd on 20th November.
We know that awareness of the UNCRC in Wales is low and so we have started to look at ways in which we can make more people aware of it. As a start to this we have pulled together a number of useful resources that can help you to raise awareness of the UNCRC and this includes this toolkit which can help everyone to or learn more about
The Convention.
The Convention.
We have been working with a number of organisations and groups over the past few months piloting the Awareness Raising Toolkit. See an example of the toolkit being used in practice.
Win a mini-camcorder or a laptop computer
To mark the 20th anniversary of UNCRC we’re challenging children and young people in Wales to come up with their own ideas on how to achieve the aims of this historic agreement over the next 20 years.
This exciting competition has separate categories for primary school pupils and for teenagers and young adults. Click below for more details:
Primary
11- 25 year olds
To mark the 20th anniversary of UNCRC we’re challenging children and young people in Wales to come up with their own ideas on how to achieve the aims of this historic agreement over the next 20 years.
This exciting competition has separate categories for primary school pupils and for teenagers and young adults. Click below for more details:
Primary
11- 25 year olds
We are committed to working in partnership to make children and young people’s rights a reality in Wales. Here are links to some of the partners we work most closely with.
We would welcome any
suggestions you have about how
we could make the Awareness Raising Toolkit even better. We are currently looking at developing a whole range of resources in this area so watch this space!
We will soon have a blog on the website where you can view all feedback. A feedback form is available here.
suggestions you have about how
we could make the Awareness Raising Toolkit even better. We are currently looking at developing a whole range of resources in this area so watch this space!
We will soon have a blog on the website where you can view all feedback. A feedback form is available here.