Children’s Rights Alliance has published a new policy briefing on using Children’s Rights Impact Assessments (CRIAs) to improve policy making. This briefing explores the benefits of producing a CRIA and best practice and tips from the rest of the UK and Europe in doing this.
CRIAs are an essential tool to help ensure that Government policy, legislation, programming and budgeting are consistent with children’s rights standards.
CRIAs help civil servants to assess and consider the impact of policy-making and legislation on children’s rights.
They can also be used by parliamentarians to scrutinise the development and implementation of Government policy and legislation and assess whether they are upholding or undermining children’s rights.
To date very few have been carried out by the Westminster Government using their CRIA template developed in 2018 but Scotland and Wales each have their own form of mandatory CRIAs.
