How well are the human rights of children protected in the care system in England?
Meeting details
The Joint Committee on Human Rights holds the first evidence session of its new inquiry into the human rights of children in the social care system in England on Wednesday 10 September.
The Committee will question representatives of charities Become, Barnardo’s and the Coram Children’s Legal Centre on how well the human rights of children are protected in the social care system. 400,000 children in England are in the social care system at any one time, including 84,000 in care.
The session will have a particular focus on children “in care”, but wider aspects of the system will also be relevant, for example in regard to kinship care, to the availability of additional support to families with disabled children, or to the efficacy of early intervention measures.