Children’s rights

Guidance and services

• Children and young people’s participation standards: good practice guide
• Advocacy standards and outcomes framework for children and young people
• Complain about Welsh Government as a young person
• Children and young people’s participation standards: factsheet
• Publication of children's rights impact assessments
• Subscribe to the ending physical punishment in Wales newsletter
• Children’s rights: information for young people
• Children's rights impact assessments: guidance for Welsh Government staff
• Children’s rights: manual for Welsh Government staff
• Children’s rights: complaints leaflet
• Ending physical punishment in Wales
• United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child: poster
• An introduction to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: booklet
• Out of Court Parenting Support Grant: guidance
• What are children’s rights: guidance for parents and carers

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Children's rights in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Children’s rights scheme
  Collection
• Commission on Justice: response from Children's Commissioner
  Public response
  Commission on Justice in Wales, Children's Commissioner for Wales
• Rights of children and young persons: compliance reports
  Collection
• Children’s Commissioner for Wales annual reports: Welsh Government responses
  Collection
  Children's Commissioner for Wales
• United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child 2016 report: Welsh Government update
  Report
• Children and young people's plan
  Policy and strategy
• Raising awareness of children’s rights
  Policy and strategy
• Supreme Court 2021/0079 and 2021/0080 Counsel General written case
  Policy and strategy
• Nanny scheme: impact assessments
  Collection
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Welsh Government report 2022
  Report
• Children (Abolition of the Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act: group meetings
  Collection
  Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 Implementation Groups
• Rights of children and young persons: compliance report (October 2020 to March 2023)
  Report
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2024
  Collection
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2023
  Collection
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2022
  Collection
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2021
  Collection
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2020
  Collection
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2013 to 2019
  Collection
• Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care (ECPLC)
  Policy and strategy
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Welsh Government response 2024
  Report
• Children’s rights impact assessments 2025
  Collection