Alderson, Priscilla; (2008) Give voice: what has been done in the past ten years to implement children’s right to be consulted for their views? Nursery World , 29 (5) pp. 14-15.

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Ten years ago, Save the Children asked me to write a book about young children's rights. How many of the rights in the 54 articles of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) apply to young children and babies? It is often thought that rights begin for children aged seven, 12 or 16 years. 'Provision' rights involve health, welfare and education, clean water and nutritious food, an adequate standard of living, and support for parents to enable them to give basic care to their children. 'Protection' rights guard against neglect, abuse, discrimination and violence. Everyone tends to support these rights for all children. Yet, the so-called 'participation' rights are more debated, although they include some rights that especially apply at birth: the right to a name and nationality, to family life, to be registered and, therefore, to have access to state services - in other words to take part in the family, community and nation. Participation rights also include freedoms to appropriate information, to thought, conscience and religion, to association and peaceful assembly. These mean, for example, that babies' families can hold religious meetings to celebrate their birth without fear of persecution or the police breaking up the meeting.

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