UNICEF UK Trustees Report and Financial Statements 2010

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The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 Child rights and education in the UK UNICEF champions child-centred education based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Child-Friendly Schools manual. In 2010, UNICEF UK continued to expand the Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) scheme for UK schools, developing Child-Friendly Schools in a UK context. The Award recognises a school’s achievement in embedding the Convention at the heart of a school’s culture and ethos to improve well-being and develop every child’s talents and abilities to their fullest potential. The expansion of the RRSA scheme has been backed by a grant of £500,000 over three years (April 2007–March 2010) by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and by a grant of £125,000 over three years (Sept 2009–August 2012) from City Bridge Trust. Thanks to this support, the number of registrations of Rights Respecting Schools increased from 1,200 to 2,000 during 2010, and the number of secondary schools increased to nearly 200. During 2010, 158 schools achieved Award Level 1 and 28 schools achieved Level 2. We have established strategic partnerships with 16 Local Authorities in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. During 2010, we strengthened and clarified Rights Respecting Schools Award standards, procedures and guidance. Web-based guidance to support schools working towards RRSA went live in September. Over 700 people enrolled on virtual courses in the first six weeks and early feedback from schools was positive. Professional development courses have been written and used across the country The final report of a three-year external evaluation of RRSA by the Universities of Sussex and Brighton found the RRSA has had a profound effect on the majority of the schools accredited by the programme. “RRSA has had a significant and positive influence on the school ethos, relationships, inclusivity, understanding of the wider world and the well-being of the school community, according to adults and young people in the evaluation schools.” Specific findings were: • Children, young people and adults had extensive knowledge and understanding of the Convention, reflected in their use of rights-respecting language, attitudes and relationships • Improved engagement in learning • Very positive relationships between pupils, between staff and between staff and pupils • Uniformly positive attitudes to inclusivity and diversity and this was reported to have improved over the three years of the evaluation • Increased pupil participation in decision-making 10
The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 c. HIV and children Every child has the right to be as healthy as possible. Yet in 2009, around 370,000 babies were born with HIV, 260,000 children died of AIDS, 2.5 million children were living with HIV, and 16.6 million children had lost one or both parents to AIDS. 5 UNICEF’s global campaign Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS has four key aims: to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; to provide children with life-saving anti-retroviral medicine; to prevent new infections among young people; and to protect, care for and support orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. These key aims support Millennium Development Goal 6: to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015. UNICEF’s global Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign is a key priority, supported by many events, corporate partners, high-profile supporters, trusts and grant-making bodies, and members of the public. Since the campaign launch in 2005, UNICEF UK has generated £17.5 million (including £2.1 million in 2010). The campaign has four priorities: • Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) • Provide anti-retroviral medicine for children with HIV • Prevent infection in young people • Protect, care for and support orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS World AIDS Day On World AIDS Day (1 December 2010), UNICEF UK in partnership with the Stop AIDS Campaign launched the Stop babies being born with HIV campaign. This asked the UK Government to commit its fair share of funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (£840 million over the next three years drawn from the existing aid budget) to keep alive the promise of stopping babies being born with HIV by 2015 and put the global effort to tackle HIV back on track. More than 2,000 UNICEF UK supporters took this action sending a strong signal to the Government during its review of all UK aid activities. Just walk UNICEF UK supporters took part in Just Walk, a sponsored walk across the South Downs that raised £20,000 for UNICEF’s work with orphans and other children left vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. This work includes initiatives such as the Isibindi programme in South Africa, which helped thousands of orphans and orphan-headed households to link up with social services in 2010. These links meant that children were able to get cash transfers to help them run the household, buy school uniforms 5 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, Geneva, August 2008, p. 218. 11
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