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To: Claire Coutinho MP Minister for Children
Children before Cash
Hold a Royal Commission on Children – their protection, care, education and training.
Why is this important?
The recent report by UN Committee on the Rights of the Child highlighted a wide range of issues detrimentally impacting children. These included long waiting lists for mental health support, high rates of poverty, high rates of violence and sexual exploitation. It made a number of recommendations to the UK Government.
In 1995, the report on Children and Violence proposed the adoption of a commitment to non-violence and recommendations to Government, in order to take a lead and build a society that reduces and prevents violence to children. Fundamentally, no commitment followed and this and other issues detrimentally impacting children is effectively being ignored by the political classes. Other warnings twenty years or so ago have been disregarded and children’s well-being and their prospects have plummeted.
In order to take action, there first must be an urgent Royal Commission on Children – their protection, care, education and training, thoroughly conducted by and independent body.
Children are the future and it is the responsibility of adults in society to protect and care for children. If we fail to do so, the consequences will be dire, for all of us. Unemployment, crime, the prison population and social unrest will rise, police and health services will be inundated, alternative 'accommodation' may have to be provided.
In 1995, the report on Children and Violence proposed the adoption of a commitment to non-violence and recommendations to Government, in order to take a lead and build a society that reduces and prevents violence to children. Fundamentally, no commitment followed and this and other issues detrimentally impacting children is effectively being ignored by the political classes. Other warnings twenty years or so ago have been disregarded and children’s well-being and their prospects have plummeted.
In order to take action, there first must be an urgent Royal Commission on Children – their protection, care, education and training, thoroughly conducted by and independent body.
Children are the future and it is the responsibility of adults in society to protect and care for children. If we fail to do so, the consequences will be dire, for all of us. Unemployment, crime, the prison population and social unrest will rise, police and health services will be inundated, alternative 'accommodation' may have to be provided.
