Article 39 fights for the rights of children and young people (under 18 years old) who live in children’s homes, hospitals and other health places, immigration detention, prisons, schools and secure children’s homes.
We take our name from Article 39 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This says that if you have been abused or mistreated in any way you have the right to recover in a place where your health, self-respect and dignity are built up.
Article 39 and the website company Wholegrain Digital worked together to make this site.
Many children and young people gave us brilliant expert advice. You can read about this here.
Carolyne Willow, who set up Article 39 in 2015, wrote the words for this site. Carolyne, Pam Hibbert, Stela Stansfield and Tony Fort asked children and young people what topics they wanted on the site, and how they wanted it to look and feel.
The information about your rights is split into four sections, which then separate into different topics. The topics cover subjects children and young people told us are important to them.
The four sections are:
The icons for the four sections are always at the bottom of your screen.
If you enter one of the four sections, you will see topic icons. If the topic has a star on it, it means you haven’t read it yet.
The A to Z is an index for all of the topics on our site.
When you enter a topic, the information is usually split between ‘Your rights – general’ and ‘Your rights – extra’.
If you like anything you read, we’d love you to click the thumbs up icon!
We also ask you to give feedback on a topic after you have read it. This should take only a few minutes. It will help us improve the site. Please especially tell us if there are any new topics you want on the site.
Sometimes we cannot avoid using words or phrases that are not commonly used. When this happens, you’ll see a perforated line under the word or phrase. If you hover over the word or phrase, a description will appear.
We’d be very grateful if you could tell others about our site.
