Children's Charter

Thunder Bay Children's Charter

All children deserve basic rights and freedoms. A fair share of society’s resources must be devoted to ensuring this. Families are responsible for raising their children. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that working in partnership with communities, all levels of governments have a duty to assist families to fulfill their responsibilities.*

All Thunder Bay children deserve:

• a quality of life that meets their physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs;
• to have enough nutritious food every day;
• to have a safe and comfortable place to live;
• quality child care and/or early education programs;
• to have safe places to play, and access to affordable recreational activities;
• quality primary, secondary, and affordable post secondary education;
• the resources to ensure life-long good health;
• to be served by governments that put the health and well-being of children first by
  ensuring enough funding for children’s programs;
• to be protected from neglect and abuse; and
• to be safe from exploitation.**

* For the purposes of this Charter children are defined as being from birth to eighteen years of age.
** For the purposes of this Charter being exploited means to be used unfairly by someone else to meet their own needs.