Proposed Budget (Government Plan) 2025-2028 (P.51/2024): twenty-seventh amendment. (P.51/2024 Amd.(27)) – Children’s Rights Impact Assessment. Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding

1)  Name and brief description of the proposed decision

The subject of your CRIA may be a proposed law, policy or proposition and in accordance with the Law is referred to in this template as the decision'

• What is the problem or issue the decision is trying to address?

• Do children experience this problem differently from adults?

Amendment to P.51/2024 Budget 2025 – 2028.

Further to the States Assembly passing P.69/2024 on funding for culture, arts and heritage, this amendment seeks to reinstate the 1% commitment over overall States revenue expenditure into the Budget for 2025 – 2028.

A full CRIA has been completed in relation to the proposition P.69/2024, and therefore has already considered any implications on children's rights.

2)  Which groups of children and young people are likely to be affected?

Groups of children could include early years, primary or secondary education; young adults; children with additional learning needs; disabled children; children living in poverty; children from particular ethnic backgrounds; migrants; refugees; care experienced children and LGBTQ+ children

As identified in the CRIA attached to P.69/2024, additional funding for arts, heritage and culture has the potential to impact upon all groups of children and young persons.

3)  What is the likely impact of the proposed decision on children and on their rights?

• Identify any potential positive OR negative impacts and include indirect impacts on children and their rights as described in the UNCRC

• Will different groups of children be affected differently by this decision?

As identified in the CRIA attached to P.69/2024,

Positive impacts on the following rights described in the UNCRC:

• Best interests of the Child (Art 3)

• Freedom of expression (Art 13)

• Freedom of association (Art 15)

• Right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet the child's physical and social needs and support their development (Art 27)

• Right to education (Art 28)

• Leisure, play and culture (Art 31)

These positive impacts could bring added benefits to groups of children who might have additional need of, and/or less access to, such resources, including children with additional learning needs, children living in poverty, or disabled children.

4)  Is a full Children's Rights Impact Assessment required?

If you have identified impacts on children and their rights, a full CRIA should be completed. If no impacts are identified then a Full CRIA is not required, but please explain your rationale and how you reached this conclusion

No, on the basis that a full CRIA has been completed on P.69/2024 and this amendment seeks to enact that proposition following approval by the States Assembly.