Human Rights and Child Poverty

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Mark Kelly is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Rural Childhood, Perth College UHI. He is currently working on an action-based research project promoting Article 12 of the UNCRC. Here Mark gives his comments on human rights and child poverty following a presentation by Sir Al Aynsley-Green, former Children Commissioner for England, at the Westminster Education Forum.

• You can read Mark's article here.
• You can read Sir Al's presentation 'Putting children at the centre of government' here.