Children's Rights

(asked on 22nd October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 210316, if she will publish the outcome of considerations of the potential effect of government policy proposals and government proposals for legislation on the rights of children carried out by the Children's Commissioner under the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 27th October 2014

The approach the Department for Education has adopted is to make the assessment of children’s rights an integral part of policy and legislative development rather than a one-off exercise. The results of this approach are reflected in the equality impact assessment published for the Education Act 2011.[1]

Our consideration of children’s rights during the legislative process also takes account of advice from the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

The Office of the Children’s Commissioner is an independent non-Departmental public body and is responsible for publishing the reports it produces.[2]

The ECHR and UNCRC note on the Children and Families Act 2014.[3]

[1] www.webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130802140618/https://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/e/the%20education%20act%202011%20equalities%20impact%20assessment.pdf

[2] www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk

[3] www.webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140430083435/http:/www.education.gov.uk/dfe/b00221161/children-families-bill

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