Listening to Children in the Field of Education: Experience in Wales

22 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2011

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Ann Sherlock

Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, Department of Law and Criminology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Date Written: December 1, 2011

Abstract

International law on children’s rights, once focused almost exclusively on protection, has moved to include a greater emphasis on the participation rights of children. Within certain areas of the law affecting children in the UK, we see a similar willingness to take account of children’s views, but the field of education has lagged behind in this respect and the UK has been criticized for its lack of progress in this area by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Although the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 has not been made part of the domestic law of the UK, the National Assembly for Wales has adopted the Convention as the basis for all policy relating to children in Wales. This article examines what the Convention requires in relation to participation rights regarding education and the extent to which the Assembly has made progress in this respect since devolution.

Keywords: child law, family law, international law, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, Wales

Suggested Citation

Sherlock, Ann, Listening to Children in the Field of Education: Experience in Wales (December 1, 2011). Child and Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 161-182, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1967040

Ann Sherlock (Contact Author)

Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, Department of Law and Criminology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth ( email )

Aberystwyth SY23 3DY
United Kingdom

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