UN Convention on Rights of Child Embedded in Curriculum Framework

Children's rights in
today's world.

Table of Contents
BLOG 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................3
Main body...................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................5
BLOG 2............................................................................................................................................6
Explore how the UN Convention on Rights of child is embedded in curriculum framework,
locally and globally.....................................................................................................................6
Introduction.................................................................................................................................6
Main body...................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8
BLOG 3............................................................................................................................................8
Critically explore the advocacy role of the practitioner in supporting the care, education,
health and welfare of children in the early years’ setting...........................................................8
Introduction.................................................................................................................................8
Main body...................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

BLOG 1
United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child
Introduction
The children are the future generation of the world so it is important that they are brought
up in the safe and positive environment and in order to ensure so, it is important to incorporate
some rights for the child so that they can be given positive environment. The rights of child are
the fundamental guarantees to all humans which involves right to life, right to live with dignity,
non discrimination and many other. It is important to protect the child from mental and physical
harm so that their integrity is protected. These are the fundamental freedoms and apply to every
child irrespective of their race, sex, status, creed, etc. This blog shall cover United Nations
convention of children's right , its legal implication of and social perception using relevant
theories.
Main body
It is the binding agreement at an international level which sets out the civil, economic,
social, and the cultural rights for every child despite of its abilities, religion and race. It consists
of 54 Articles which provides the child rights and the framework for how a government must
work to make the rights available to the children. The government under this convention are
obliged to meet with the basic needs of child and also help children to reach their full potential.
It was created in order recognise the rights of children and make sure that they grow and develop
in the spirit of dignity, peace, freedom, tolerance and equality (Paechter, 2021). The basic
fundamental rights of children includes the following but this list is not exhaustive, rather it
includes many more rights-
 The right to life, development and survival.
 Protection from the abuse, violence and neglect.
 Right to education which can enable children to fulfil its potential.
Two optional protocols were also added to the UNCRC in the year 2000. The first
optional protocol deals with the fact that the children who are aged below 18 years must not be
forcibly recruited in the armed forces and second optional protocol deals with prohibition of
children pornography, child prostitution and selling of child to slavery. These protocols are
ratified by approx 120 states. In the year 2011, the third optional protocol was included which

mainly provides the children whose rights have being infringed to file the complaint directly to
UN Committee on Rights of Children (Mbise, 2017).
The United Nations have adopted this convention in the year 1989 and 196 countries
have signed this and these countries are bound to ensure its compliance in their state as per their
obligation towards international law. The UNCRC is also international treaty of human rights
which have given the Non government organisation such as Save the Children the direct role in
order to oversee the implementation of this convention under Article 45a.
The general principles of this convention are also he bedrock and are given special
emphasis which includes the following- As per Article 2 of the UNCRC, all the rights which are embodied in this convention
should be given to all children without any type of discrimination. Article 3 provides that an interest of child should be of primary consideration for all
actions which concerns the child.
 Article 6 provides that the every child have the right to the life, development and
survival.
 As per Article 12, the view of the child shall be taken into consideration in all matters
which affects him or her (Cuevas-Parra, 2021).
Legal implementation of UNCRC
The UNCRC has inspired the governments to change their policies and laws and make
many investments for taking care of the children' s health and nutrition so that they can develop
and survive. He states have also made strong safeguards in order to protect the children from
exploitation and violence. Every state under Article 4 is obliged to take all the appropriate
administrative, legislative and other measures for implementing child rights which are
recognised under the convention.
The Constitution of Ireland which is Bunreacht na hEireann provides two constitutional
rights. First is right to education as provided under Article 42.3 and ability of State to intervene
when the parents fail their children as provided under Article 42.5.
The state has also implemented the principles of UNCRC in its statutes. Some of them
are discussed below-
 Protection of the Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998- This legislation is
designed to protect the persons from the civil liability in case they have reported any case