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A new ‘Findings' publication from Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ‘Making user involvement work: supporting service user networking and knowledge', highlights major barriers and ways service users see of overcoming these.

A report by a coalition of over 100 children’s charities has found the government has failed to make progress on 80 per cent of the recommendations on children’s rights made by the UN four years ago. In its annual report, the Children’s Rights Alliance criticised the government for failing to make "significant progress" on 66 of the 78 recommendations made by the UN Committee of the Rights of the Child in 2002.