In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Child Rights’ Aaron and Jessy give us some insight into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child and how youth workers can use the articles within it to sharpen their practice.
Child Rights
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 and was entered into force 2 September 1990.
The fifty-four articles contained in the convention form the basis of many of the legislative frameworks relating to young people in Australia such as the Child Youth and Families ACT (2005) in Victoria and the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. As youth workers it is important for us to understand the articles and reflect on how they influence our practice.
Youth work has long fought for the rights of young people. Our very existence is based on the inextricable fact that young people have rights above and beyond the rights we all have as human beings. Our Codes of Ethics point towards child rights throughout the documents. Our practice frameworks look to empowering young people to understand their rights. In short youth work is a rights driven profession.
Today’s resources
Here are links to some articles and training that have bearing on todays podcast:
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Podcast 035: National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
- Victorian Youth Worker Code of Ethics
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Aaron Garth
Aaron Garth is the Executive Director of Ultimate Youth Worker. Aaron has worked as a youth worker in a number of settings including local church, street drug and alcohol outreach, family services, residential care, local government and youth homelessness since 2003. Aaron is a regular speaker at camps, retreats, & youth work training events and is a dedicated to seeing a more professional youth sector in Australia. Aaron is a graduate of RMIT University and an alumnus of their youth work program. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Jennifer & their daughters Hope, Zoe, Esther, Niamh and son Ezra.
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