Child Rights
in
Eaglesham
LI: To explore the rights to which
others and I are entitled.
Paired Work
 The
Statistical Accounts of Eaglesham
were written in 1799 and 1845.
 Think about what a child might have
looked like at this time.
 With your partner, you have 5 minutes
to draw a picture of a child on your
piece of paper.
Paired Task
Read and discuss the extracts from the
Statistical Accounts in your pairs.
 As you read and discuss each extract,
highlight any information which tells you
that the rights in the UNCRC were not
being received by the children in
Eaglesham.
 Write the article number of the rights
which are not being received by the
children in the margin of your extract
sheet.

Example
reconciling
lower ranks
small-pox
inoculation
 The
small-pox carry off great
numbers of children: but there is
no reconciling the minds of the
lower ranks to inoculation.
 Article
24 - Every child has the
right to good quality health care, to
clean water, nutritious food and a
clean environment, so that they will
stay healthy.
Article 28 - Every child
has the right to an education.
Primary education must be free.
Article 17 – Every child has the
right to reliable information.
Article 13 – Every child has the
right to get and share information.
Article 24 - Every child
has the right to good
quality health care
Article 27 – Every child has the
right to a standard of living that
is good.
Article 6 – Governments must do all
they can to ensure children survive
and grow up healthy.
Article 32 – Governments must protect children
from work that is dangerous or might harm their education.
UNCRC
The UN Declaration of Human Rights was
proclaimed 10 December 1948.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the
first legally binding international instrument to
incorporate the full range of human rights.
In 1989, world leaders decided that children
needed a special convention just for them because
people under 18 years old often need special care
and protection that adults do not.
The leaders also wanted to make sure that the
world recognised that children have human rights
too.
Campaigning for Child Rights
 Can
you think of different ways that
someone could campaign to establish
Child Rights?
• Letter to someone in Authority
• Posters
• Speech
• Radio Broadcast
Task:
In pairs choose a way to campaign for the
rights of the children in Eaglesham in 1845.