Category: Getting it Right for Every Child

Our 2025/2026 centre improvement plan recognised Children’s Right as a priority.

Since August we have been reflecting on which rights best represent our centre vision, values, aims and ethos. We have also considered the way we in which already support children and families within our setting and how to build on these.

The articles we feel most reflected our practice, will be the first to be introduce and explored by our children, creating opportunity to share this journey with you as our families.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) includes many important articles.

We have chosen the following 4 to begin our introduction as focus areas within centre.

• Article 24 – The Right to Be Healthy

• Article 12 – The Right To Be Heard

• Article 28 – The Right to Education

• Article 31 – The Right to Play

Over the coming months, we will be gradually introducing these rights to the children in age-appropriate and meaningful ways. We look forward to sharing updates, activities, and information with you as this journey continues.

Thank you for supporting us as we work together to ensure children’s rights at the heart of everything we do.

What are Children’s Rights?

Children’s rights are the basic rights and freedoms that every child is entitled to regardless of race, religion or abilities. These rights are set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and are designed to ensure that all children are safe, healthy, listened to; able to grow, learn, and thrive.

Children’s rights help guide how adults make decisions that affect children, placing their wellbeing, voice and best interests at the heart of everything we do.