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Summary: The report is not about the contents of
policies for children. It is about the
structures required to ensure that the
process of govenment meets the needs of
children.
"There is a widespread concern that govenment structures in the UK
are failing children. This report, the result of a wide-ranging
inquiry in the UK and internationally , proposes ways of ensuring
that central government is more responsive to the needs and rights fo
children.
The 170-page report first outlines the aims of effective government
for children and justifies the case for special structures for
children. It goes on to discuss what central government should be
doing for children, and to make detailed proposals for alternative
structures, both in Whitehall and within Northern Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. In addition , it promotes the case for new parliamentary
structures , and for an independent Office of Children's Rights.
The report is not about the contents of policies for children. It is
about the structures required to ensure that the process of govenment
meets the needs of children"`Owner: Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell