Principles & Practices For Upholding Rights

[anupreetham.radha]

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What are the key principles and practices for upholding the rights of the children and other clients?

Answer:
Child Rights: the four key principles
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child consists of 54 articles and is guided by four fundamental principles:
1. Every child, everywhere (Article 1):
Children should neither benefit nor suffer because of their race, colour, gender, language, religion, national, social or ethnic origin, or because of any political or other opinion; because of their caste, property or birth status; or because they are disabled.
2. The best interests of the child (Article 3):
Laws and actions affecting children should put their best interests first and benefit them in the best possible way. All adults should do what is best for children. When adults make decisions, they should think about how their decisions will affect children. This particularly applies to budget, policy and law makers.
3. Survival, development and protection (Article 6):
Children have the right to live. The authorities in each country must protect children and help ensure their full development – physically, spiritually, morally and socially.
4. A voice (Article 12):
Children have a right to have their say in decisions that affect them and to have their opinions taken into account. This convention encourages adults to listen to the opinions of children and involve them in decision making – not give children authority over adults.
Supporting young children’s rights:
Statement of intent is designed to support teachers, educators, the community, families and children to ethically and authentically support, understand and implement the rights of children in early childhood.
Five key themes are included in the statement
• The right to be heard
• Freedom from violence, abuse and neglect
• The opportunity to thrive
• Engaged civics and citizenship
• Action and accountability
Principle to guide our actions:
In line with Australia’s obligations as a signatory to the UN Convention, the National Framework is underpinned by the following principles:
• All children have a right to grow up in an environment free from neglect and abuse. Their best interests are paramount in all decisions affecting them.
• Children and their families have a right to participate in decisions affecting them.
• Improving the safety and wellbeing of children is a national priority.
• The safety and wellbeing of children is primarily the responsibility of their families, who should be supported by their communities and governments.
• Australian society values, supports and works in partnership with parents, families and others in fulfilling their caring responsibilities for children.
• Children’s rights are upheld by systems and institutions.
• Policies and interventions are evidence based.
Practices:
Under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children, protecting children is everyone’s responsibility. Some of the key groups and their involvement in the National Framework are described below.
Parents and Families care for and protect their children and engage in decision making that has an impact on them and their children.
Children and young people participate in decisions affecting them.
Communities support and protect all their members, and support families to raise their children, particularly vulnerable families.
Non-government organisations deliver services (including on behalf of governments), contribute to the development of policy, programs and the evidence based and actively promote child safety, protection, rights and wellbeing.
The business and corporate sector supports parents to raise their children through family friendly policies. They may also support programs and initiatives to directly assist children and families, including direct financial assistance, pro bono activities of their staff and professional support to community organisations.
Local governments deliver a range of services to vulnerable families, including youth and family centres and local infrastructure, and play a pivotal role in engaging vulnerable children and their families in those services.
State and Territory governments deliver a range of universal services and early intervention initiatives to prevent child abuse and neglect, and fund and coordinate many services by the non government sector and also responsible for the statutory child protection systems.
The Australian Government delivers universal support and services to help families raise their children through pensions, family payments, child care benefit and tax rebates to provide broad social safety net and specifically support families in their parenting role. Also provides a range of services such as medicare, employment services child and parenting support services, family relationship services and the family law system, support for the key services through the State and Territories such as hospitals, schools, housing and disability services.
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Please confirm whether these practices are correct from the article https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publicat ... brief-no-1

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