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Children's Rights Director welcomes Government announcement on the future Children's Commissioner

16 Dec 2011

The Government has today made its response to the recent consultation on the legislation to be introduced to replace both the present Children’s Commissioner for England and the present Children’s Rights Director for England with a new Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England. The statement, by Sarah Teather MP, Minister for Children and Families, confirms the content of the proposed legislation for the new Commissioner.

Dr Roger Morgan, the Children’s Rights Director for England, said:

'I welcome the legal provisions on which the new Commissioner will be founded and which will legally guide his or her work. In particular, I welcome the confirmation that the future Commissioner will focus on two key areas – children’s rights, and the interests of those children who are particularly vulnerable to their rights being breached.

'After ten years of working as Children’s Rights Director with my team for the rights of children in care and children living away from home, I strongly welcome the government’s announcement today that the law will endorse all the activities that my Office currently carries out for these children, and that the future Children’s Commissioner for England will be empowered by law ‘to undertake all the activities currently provided by the Children’s Rights Director.’ I welcome that the legislation will make ‘special provision for the Children’s Commissioner to provide advice and assistance to individual children who currently fall under the Children’s Rights Director’s remit.’ This enables our present individual ‘light touch casework’ role to continue. I hope and trust that this will be a very high priority in the new Commissioner’s work from the outset.'

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• Children's Rights Director welcomes Government announcement on the future Children's Commissioner

  16 Dec 2011

  The Government has today made its response to the recent consultation on the legislation to be introduced to replace both the present Children’s Commissioner for England and the present Children’s Rights Director for England with a new Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England.

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