CHILD rights experts, critical of Government inaction, are calling for the establishment of a Council for Children.
And they want the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified in Hong Kong.
However, the experts attending a conference organised by the Hong Kong Committee on Children's Rights, under the auspices of the Against Child Abuse organisation, were told Britain had to sign the convention on behalf of Hong Kong.
However, the British Government wants to wait until it can sign for all its dependent territories at the same time.
Committee chairman Dr Patricia Ip said Britain's delay in signing the convention would not stop demands for immediate improvements in child rights: ''We have to start somewhere. The ratification of the UN convention would be great, but we don't have to wait for it.
''The Government is not doing enough. It should set up a committee specifically to monitor every aspect of child welfare, but we don't see it setting it up, because it says it has committees covering various areas already.
''The point is, you can't separate the areas of a child's life. You have to look at the child as a whole.
