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    The aim of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is to change the way children are viewed and treated no matter their background, using what the United Nations view as ‘fundamental rights’ to which every child is entitled to. This according to the United Nations should be ‘universailly applicable to the lives of every child’, with no expections to race, gender, ethnicity or religion. The intention of this essay is to challenge the favouritive idea that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child does aid and achieve this. This will be done by using examples of how certain articles in the United Nations Convention are not relevant to all children’s everyday lives. I will sum up the ideas addressed in this…

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    were seen as miniature adults, to eventually grow up and help out their parents (Ansell, 2005, p.9). It was not until the late 190 0s where we saw a reform in favour of children, this reform was the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, where a draft was started in 1979 for the International year of the child and was fully completed and initiated by all states except the United States in 1989. The UNCRC was the first convention created for the sole purpose of creating and…

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    Unfrfc Article 12

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    Child (UNCRC) in 1991. The UNCRC is a human rights treaty that highlights the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights for children and youth (Faulkner & Nyamutata, 2020). Article 12 of the UNCRC states that children have the right to express their views freely in all matters affecting them, and their views should be given due weight in accordance…

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    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has taken the lead in promoting and protecting the rights of young people, but the question still remains unanswered; what is the status of children as citizens? The author suggests there are three ways of viewing the relationship between children and citizenship. First, children can be viewed…

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    thinking about the rights of the child is a fundamental starting theme. The word child refers to a human being between the stages of birth to a certain age although it differs from one society to another. Generally, the upper age limit for a human being to be referred as a child is 18 in many societies. Traditionally, caring for children starts in the family where a mother plays a central role in the child's overall development. Gradually, the concept of 'the rights of the child' have come about…

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    On an organisational level, a school will have an attendance policy. These policies will be based on the Every Child Matters framework which states that every child has the right to an education. Attendance policies ensure that the childâ€TMs right to an education is safeguarded. Regarding day to day workings, this means practitioners will need to log the attendance of those in their care and inform the appropriate authorities of none attendance. Question: Question 4 Answer: Serious case reviews…

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    Research, in 2013 twenty-eight percent of Canadian Children aged 11 to 15 admitted to using cannabis at least once in the past year. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) (2016b) reported as much as 7% of adolescents smoke marijuana every single day; making Canadian youth top cannabis consumers. Article 33 of the UNCRC states that governments should use all means possible to protect children from use of harmful drugs (United Nations, 1989); the literature suggests government officials…

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    (mostly) under the jurisdiction of governments who have either ratified the UNCRC, developed complementary treaties to the UNCRC (such as African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child), or as in the case of the United States of America, helped draft many of the articles and signed the treaty, but have yet to ratify it into law (critics have hinted this is due to the practice of some states use of juvenile criminal execution) (Canadian Children's Rights Council - Conseil canadien des…

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    Safeguarding relates to the action taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm, and is defined as: • Protecting children from maltreatment • Preventing impairment of children’s health and development • Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and • Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Some of the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures which help to safeguard children…

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    life cycle of a child involves three most important components such as (i) Child survival, (ii) Child development and (iii) Child protection. Children are the little people who need big rights. Child survival entails their basic right of being born in a safe and non discriminatory environment and achievement and completion rates in education are the focus areas in child development. Safeguarding the children from violence, exploitation and abuse like child labour and child trafficking fall under…

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