Minister for Children Jane Hutt said
In Wales, we are very clear that the best way to serve the interests and meet the needs of children and young people is to recognise them as active citizens with ideas and opinions. As a government, we have worked very hard to promote children and young people as active citizens in Wales. It was heartening to share common concerns and ambitions with the Children’s Commissioners, taking the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the basis for all of our policies and programmes for children and young people.
A comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations has been undertaken by UNICEF.
The UK placed 21st out of 21.
The British policy pursued by her Government has failed and the Minister needs to take responsibility for it.
Like other smaller countries that placed at the top of the UNICEF research Wales needs to have the powers to pass laws and design policies that suit the needs of children in Wales alone.
Annette Strauch wrote...
I do not like Jane Hutt!
There is a great singer, esp. for the lyrics - called Herbert Grönemeyer who sings that Children should have the power!
The armies consist of jellybabies, tanks out of marzipan, they just eat the wars. It is as simple as that for them. There is no good, there is no bad. There are gaps in the teeth. There is strawberry ice-cream forever, the children smile and laugh.
Children are original, culture changes them (Rousseau). The violence against children in Wales I find shocking. You see it when you go shopping. The mothers often shout at their children. You cannot catch up in 20 years what was missing in early childhood. Poverty makes children outsiders. A lot is done in Wales like the Eisteddfod yr Urdd. I doubt that this represents the interest of all Welsh children. I have seen children who were not properly dressed or in winter they would not have a coat to wear (a girl in Bow Street waiting for the schoolbus). For children with difficulties you need: physiotherapy, ergotherapy, logotherapy, psychomotoric help, etc.
Children in Wales must enjoy their childhood!
Kinder an die Macht
die armeen aus gummibärchen
die panzer aus marzipan
kriege werden aufgegessen
einfacher plan
kindlich genial
es gibt kein gut, es gibt kein böse
es gibt kein schwarz, es gibt kein weiß
es gibt zahnlücken
statt zu unterdrücken
gibt's erdbeereis auf lebenszeit
immer für 'ne überraschung gut
gebt den kindern das kommando
sie berechnen nicht, was sie tun
die welt gehört in kinderhände
dem trübsinn ein ende
wir werden in grund und boden gelacht
kinder an die macht
sie sind die wahren anarchisten
lieben das chaos, räumen ab
kennen keine rechte, keine pflichten
ungebeugte kraft, massenhaft
ungestümer stolz
gebt den kindern ...
Posted by: Annette Strauch | July 27, 2007 11:38 AM