Funded projects

To undertake a human rights based review of kinship care with Liverpool City Council & European Children's Rights Unit, to inform national legislative change through National Kinship Alliance.

To develop an Equalities Skills Builder project to train all UK hospice staff in the adoption of a human rights based approach to end of life care.

To empower voluntary sector organisations to use human rights to support victims of crime.

To develop and instigate a strategic legal response to the national issue of benefit sanctioning.

To develop voluntary sector skills and capacity to challenge local authority decision making on individual service/ budget allocations using human rights, community care and equalities legislation.

To support grassroots community organisations in effectively using the law and adopting human rights approaches to ensure vulnerable migrant women obtain essential care and services during pregnancy and new motherhood.

To ensure the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child are fully utilised as an advocacy tool by voluntary sector organisations.

To support Deaf and Disabled people's organisations to secure Disabled people's rights under the Human Rights Act, Care Act and Equality Act and to scrutinise public sector decision making.

To further develop and roll out the Equality and Human Rights Framework for the voluntary and community sector.

To build a public law and human rights based approach within grassroots and advocacy organisations to ensure girls and young women in care receive appropriate support.