Today (Wednesday 20, November) children in Cardiff celebrated World Children's Day, UNICEF's annual day of action for children, by children. The event provided an opportunity for children and young people to come together to celebrate progress made to advance their rights and highlight the work that still needs to be done.
This year marked 30years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and schools across the Cardiff will host a range events to commemorate the special anniversary.
Some highlights from across the city included;
Cardiff Council is aspiring to become a Child Friendly City outlined in the Strategy launched last year, with five clear goals which set out how to embed children's rights and attain UNICEF Child Friendly City status;
Today, 91of Cardiff's schools are signed up to the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Programme, showing their support to help Cardiff become one of the UK's first Child Friendly City's.
The RRSA programme recognises a school which puts child rights into practice, creating a safe and inspiring place to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive.
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