Question Time»Children's Rights Day

Six schools came to the Town Hall as part of celebrating International Children’s’ Day and the 21st birthday of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We discussed children’s rights, chose one that was important to us and presented them to Roger Morgan, Children’s Rights Director for England. We then interviewed him for this webpage, to see his answers click on our questions below.

To see the images and activity we used to explore children’s rights, where the pictures were taken by children from Guatemala City click here and read activity 3.
click here To find out more about Roger Morgan’s work you can see his website for the children he fights for.

To find out what is happening in children’s rights in England you can read the website of Children’s Rights Alliance for England, click here  to get up-to-date information your school could join.
click here To find out what your Children’s Commissioner is doing in England to fight for your rights.

To find out what is happening in London for children’s rights you can visit the website of the Mayor and Greater London Authority. Click here You can read his report on the future of London for young people.

Children writing about their most important rights	Asking a question to Roger Morgan
Roger Morgan being interviewed by primary children	Old Palace School Council Members with Roger Morganm, holding their Children's Rights handbooks.

 

How long have you been Children's Rights Director?	If you were the person in charge of everything how would you change Children's Rights in London?
Without any education when children get older can they have jobs?	Are you doing anything to ban child labour and if not what is your view of it hapening to children?
Do adults have the right to speak?	If you see a child not having their rights what action do you take?
What is your favourite bit of your job?	How many people have you helped that are poor?
Why are Children's Rights important to you?	In your opinion what Children's Rights do you think is the most important and why?
The people that you helped, where are they now?	Why do you think kids need rights?
What inspired you to get involved in Children's Rights and responsibilities?	Are you independent or not?
How do you feel when you can't save the ones that don't have their rights?	Were any of the children you helped rich?
What would happen if children did not have rights?	Roger thanks the children.

 

Find out more about the schools involved in this project by clicking the links below.
Chisenhale, Mowlem, Old Palace, Smithy Street, St Luke's, St Paul's