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• Press release - 90 children’s charities warn the UN that children’s rights have deteriorated in England In a new report released ahead of Human Rights Day (10 December), 90 children’s charities from across England warn that a number of critical children’s rights issues must be urgently addressed by the UK Government to prevent worsening impacts on the most vulnerable children. Read more
• Growing up in lockdown: Europe’s children in the age of COVID-19 This new report from Eurochild reflects on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on children's rights across Europe. CRAE compiled the assessment of England. Read more
• Press Release - Government must act to protect vulnerable children excluded from school and exploited by criminal gangs warns children’s charity A new report by Just for Kids Law and CRAE highlights how vulnerable children are being excluded from school for behaviour resulting from being criminally exploited by gangs and drugs traffickers. Read more
• Written evidence received for civil society LOIPR submission 2020 For the UK’s forthcoming examination, the UN Committee will set out in the LOIPR what issues the Government should cover in its State Report. It is therefore crucial that we ensure the UN Committee receives a high-quality submission from civil society, which will help inform the LOIPR and ensure the UK Government is effectively held to account on its child rights obligations.
  In order to inform the Civil Society submission, CRAE opened a call for written evidence for six weeks during August-September 2020. Read more
• Civil Society LOIPR Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child The Civil Society LOIPR report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child marks the start of the UK’s examination under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Led by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), it sets out civil society’s top concerns for the UN to investigate and reveals that children’s rights have regressed in many areas since the UN’s last examination in 2016. Read more
• Excluded, exploited, forgotten: Childhood criminal exploitation and school exclusions A new report by Just for Kids Law and CRAE highlights how vulnerable children are being excluded from school for behaviour resulting from being criminally exploited by gangs and drugs traffickers and urges the Government to act. Read more