Welcome to our UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools page. We have recently started our journey to become a 'Rights Respecting School' so take a read below to find out what this means for Yew Tree. We shall update and add more information as we make progress towards our accreditation.

Information about our accreditation journey is shown below.  

What is a Rights Respecting School?

A UNICEF Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are heard, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Children, and the school community, learn about children’s rights by putting them into practice every day. 

Being a Rights Respecting School is not just about what children do but also, importantly, what adults do. In a Rights Respecting School, children’s rights are promoted and realised and adults and children work towards this together. 

The Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of school’s planning, policies, practices and ethos.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

The UNRC is a list of children’s rights that all children and young people, everywhere in the world, have no matter who they are, where they live or what they believe in.

The UNCRC has 54 articles, 42 rights are for children and young people up to 18 years of age. The others are all about how governments and adults should work together to make sure children and young people can access their rights. 

Children’s rights are all the things that children and young people need to make sure that they are safe, have the things they need to survive and develop, and have a say in decisions that affect their lives.

Click HERE to read the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child or look at the information below.