School age childcare: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

5. Is a Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment required?

Yes. Although the policy is determined to have a broadly positive impact on children and young people, it is important to undertake this impact assessment so that any potential unintended consequences are identified and addressed. A CRWIA also helps to broaden and deepen our understanding of issues around children and young people.

We will start with a high level CRWIA for the overall Programme. Subsequently, we will prepare CRWIAs, where required, to cover individual projects or policy areas, or groups of projects and project areas, as the work of the Programme progresses.