Members of the NHS Youth Forum got together with Dr Peter Green from the National Network of Designated Healthcare Professionals for Children (NNDHP) to create a report for the United Nations Committee for the Rights of a Child.

After being consulted by the National Network of Designated Healthcare Professionals for Children on their report: ‘Health thematic for consideration prior to the review of the UK by the UN committee for the rights of a child’, the Youth Forum wrote their own report for consideration by the UN committee for the rights of a child that addressed the concerns and views of the NHS Youth Forum. 

This report looks at the five issues outlined in the National Network of Designated Healthcare Professionals for Children report, as well as a further issue young people thought to be prevalent. These issues are:

• Infant mortality, Maternal death in childbirth and Adolescent Mortality 

• Malnutrition

• Looked after children 

• Child poverty + UN sustainable development goals 

• Promotion of health and wellbeing 

• Gender identity

The report was co-led by Haris Sultan and Sonia Beard, with writers, Ray Everall and Emma Beeden, and illustrated by Beci Ward.

You can read the full report here.