The right of the child to play in the national reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

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ID4485939
AuthorsJ B Janot (0000-0003-1178-0957, Universitat Ramon Llull, corresponding author), Andrés Payà Rico (0000-0001-7646-4539, Universitat de València)
Year2020
Volume9
Issue4
Pages400-413
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Play (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2159-4937 • E-ISSN: 2159-4953
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21594937.2020.1843803
OpenAlexW3109281414
LanguageEN
References cited15

The right of the child to play is recognised in Art. 31.1 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The 2013 approval of General Comment No. 17, in which the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) entreats the signatory states to raise attention to child play. This study analyses, through the reports submitted by the members of the European Union in the CRC, the relevance of child play. Also, the study analyses the final recommendations by the CRC to each state. Even though all child play policies are not reflected in these documents and there is a word limit for reports, the results of the analysis are not positive, showing that the states do not exhaustively comply with the reports’ guidelines. Furthermore, they appear to demonstrate that General Comment No. 17 did not have the desired impact in the reported child play policies

Business · Child Rights · Convention · Convention on the Rights of the Child · European union · Human rights · International trade · Member states · Political science · Child Development and Digital Technology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Psychology

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