Today's report from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is a significant boost to those striving to improve the lives of children and young people across the country

THE United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has backed the key recommendations from all four UK Children’s Commissioners to improve children’s lives

Primary care trusts and mental health trusts have some way to go if they are to meet the Government’s target to ensure no children or young people are inappropriately placed on adult mental health wards by 2010, the Children’s Commissioner for England today says today.