The Children’s Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have called for “the full, direct and urgent incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law” in each of the home countries. They say that it should also be a requirement for all impact analysis of new legislation in the UK to include a section on the effect on children’s rights.
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