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Health and Wellbeing
The Committee said the Government must:
63 Do everything it can to make sure the laws that protect disabled people and allow for services to be provided for disabled children are put into practice properly.
64 Develop new ways of finding out if children have disabilities early on in life.
65 Provide training for people (such as doctors, nurses, teachers and social workers) who work with disabled children.
66 Develop a national plan to make sure all disabled children can take part fully in society.
67 Make sure more information is available about the needs and rights of disabled children, and do more to make sure their participation rights are respected and they are not discriminated against.
68 Ratify (agree to follow) the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ensures that disabled people have the same standard of human rights across the world as non-disabled people.
69 Develop a Government plan to give all children equal access to health services. This plan must be linked to plans aimed at ending child poverty.
70 More money should be spent on mental health services for children, and services should be expanded. Services should particularly focus on certain groups of children including children in care, children living in poverty and children in trouble with the law.
71 Put into practice international rules about marketing baby formula.
72 Do more to promote baby-friendly hospitals.
73 Include the promotion and encouragement of breastfeeding in training for nursing staff.
74 Provide better sex and relationship services and education to teenagers, and make sure that sex education is taught in schools.
75 Carry out research into why teenagers use drugs and alcohol so that programmes can be developed to reduce the level of drug and alcohol use.
76 Improve mental health and counselling services for teenagers and make sure they are fully accessible and sensitive to young people's needs.
77 Provide clear and correct information about drugs and alcohol to children and do more to support children who are trying to stop using them.
78 Introduce laws to end child poverty by 2020 and set clear targets for achieving this.
79 Make sure that laws and actions to end child poverty make the poorest children and families the top priority.
80 Do more to give more practical support directly to children living in poverty by providing help with food, clothing and housing.
81 Reintroduce the law that puts a legal duty on local councils to provide safe sites for Gypsy/Travellers.
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