Since the start of 2026, your colleagues at the CBA Child and Youth Law Section have been working on updates to the Child Rights Toolkit, a valued legal resource that practitioners across the country have been contributing to since its initial launch in 2017-2018.
As part of this work, we reached out to the Canadian child and youth law, research and advocacy community for ideas of how we could continue to evolve the Toolkit as an essential practice tool for children's rights advocacy. We were told that we should make the Toolkit an interdisciplinary and rights-based resource for lawyers, educators, advocates, service providers, policymakers, youth, and community organizations. Contributors consistently emphasized stronger implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention), improved accessibility, updated legal resources, and attention to emerging issues affecting children.