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IT has been 20 years in the making but in less than six weeks the country votes on the Children's Rights Referendum. After devastating incest cases and harrowing reports into clerical sex abuse, people will go to the polls to decide whether to give kids a voice in our Constitution.
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THE much-hyped and much-needed referendum on children's rights, planned for October 27, has been postponed. Without much resistance, it got left by the wayside. Yes, we will have a referendum on reducing judges' pay (no prizes for guessing how that one will go), which will probably cost more than it will save, but there will be no vote to enshrine the rights of children in our constitution. The crying need for such change was brought home to me this week, reading a searing new account of child abuse endured by three sisters.
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IT WAS one of modern history's greatest political leaders, John F Kennedy, who in 1963 said: "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. That was nearly 50 years ago, and he was drawing attention to the appeal by Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the championing of the rights of children.
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DIVORCED parents may gain legal rights of access to their children under proposals reportedly being considered by the UK government. Under plans being considered by Children's Minister Tim Loughton, courts would be obliged to ensure access to children for both fathers and mothers during divorce proceedings. It would also challenge legal precedent that "presumed custody" should lie with the mother and satisfy fathers' rights groups who have called for equal access to be included in law.
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YOUNGSTERS at a Vale of Clwyd school have been learning all about their rights during a special visit by the Children"s Commissioner for Wales. Keith Towler was invited to a special assembly at Rhos Street School in Ruthin on Thursday.
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MORE than 2,000 children eager for a loving home remain in State care because they can't legally be adopted. Instead, the youngsters - who represent one third of the total number in care - have to be left with long-term foster parents.
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A MAJOR international conference that focuses on the human rights of children and young people is to be held next week at Swansea University. Taking the Rights Steps -- Children's Rights: Wales and the World will take place on June 11 and 12 at Mumbles Road campus.
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Jane Robson, chair of Birmingham Law Society's Family Law Committee, and assistant director - Adults and Children, Legal and Democratic Services, Birmingham City Council, reports on the Family Justice Review The interim report of the Family Justice Review has recently been published, containing a set of recommendations that are aimed at fundamental change in the family justice system. The problems identified by the report recognise the strain that the system is under, while accepting that its basic principles remain right - children are the priority and their welfare must be paramount and their rights upheld.
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WALES yesterday became the first country in the UK to make the United Nation Convention on the Rights of a Child part of its domestic law. The Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure has been approved by Her Majesty in Council.
