SACRE

United Nations Charter for the Rights of the Child

The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 includes a ‘duty to promote knowledge and understanding of the United Nations Conventions on the rights of children and persons of disabilities’. It is imperative that when schools are developing their RVE curriculum, they not only incorporate opportunities for learners to learn about human rights and the UNCRC and UNCRPD, but also that learners are given the opportunity to participate in curriculum design. The cross-cutting themes for curriculum design (opens in a new tab), categorise three elements of human rights education, all of which should be incorporated into the RVE curriculum:

1. Learning about human rights – incorporates understanding human rights and the sources of those rights, including the UNCRC and the UNCRPD.
2. Learning through human rights – is about the development of values, attitudes and behaviours that reflect human rights values.
3. Learning for human rights – is about the motivation of social action and empowerment of active citizenship to advance respect for the rights of all.

This syllabus has been designed with these considerations of human rights in mind.