2. The Life Outside for Children and Young People in NI
Jacqueline Melville

3. Overview A picture of health - health and wellbeing in NI
The UNCRC and health
Friend or foe – Transforming Your Care and Welfare Reform

4. A Picture of Health Higher rate of mental illness
Higher rate of disability
Higher rate of hospital admissions and longer stays
2010 saw the highest recorded level of suicide

5. UNICEF Report Card – UK ranked 21 of 21 in childhood wellbeing
Highest UK level of persistent child poverty
Highest UK rate of children on the Child Protection Register

6. Public Expenditure Personal Social Services Spend: NI £287 per child
England £402 per child
Wales £429 per child
Scotland £513 per child

7. Percentage of PSS budget spend:
NI 14% on children
Scotland 21% on children
England 24% on children
Wales 26% on children

8. The UNCRC and Health Article 24 (1):
States Parties recognise the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health

9. Article 24(1):
States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right to access such health care services

10. Health inequalities and poverty
Those in the 20% most deprived areas are 40% more likely to die before 75
Those in poverty have a 66% higher rate of respiratory mortality and 65% higher rate of lung cancer

11. Those in the most deprived populations have a 19% higher admission rate to neonatal intensive care
Those in poverty have a 73% higher rate of suicide

12. UNICEF Implementation Handbook
The holistic nature of the Convention ... stresses the obvious connections between the child’s right to health with rights to an adequate standard of living, to education and to protection from all forms of violence and abuse

13. One and all – some UNCRC principles
Indivisibility of rights
Progressive realisation

14. Friend or foe?
Children’s health and wellbeing - Transforming Your Care
Children’s health and wellbeing – Welfare Reform

15. Final Thoughts
The journey for children’s health and wellbeing in NI