"The Convention can’t be underestimated, it’s a landmark in the history of childhood, it may be looked at as a highly significant event in the history of childhood and it can also be viewed as an important event to raise the profile of children and an exercise in politics if nothing more. This depends on whether we take children’s rights seriously." (Freeman, 2017)
A distinguished panel of discussants brought children's rights alive in a multi-faceted way. A most enriching afternoon listening to Professor Michael Freeman, Emeritus Professor of English Law at UCL and:
Professor Priscilla Alderson (Institute of Education, UCL) - 'Participation and democracy'
Professor Laura Lundy (Queens University, Belfast) - 'Liberal paternalism and the paternal liberal'
Professor Aoife Nolan (University of Nottingham) - 'Children’s Rights; The Challenge of Poverty'
Virginia Morrow (University of Oxford) and Dr Kirrily Pells (UCL Institute of Education) - 'Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights'
Professor Helen Stalford (University of Liverpool) - 'The Implications of Brexit and Children's Lost EU Citizenship'
