As Donald Trump through his UN ambassador withdraws the USA from the United Nation Human Rights Council claiming the agency is a “protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias” and images circulate around the world of his Customs and Border Protection departments treatment of children and their parents, it is understandable that people both within and outside of the USA are getting angry. It is vital for this anger not to subside, but also that we do not allow the pathetic behaviour of a man some people still naively refer to as the leader of the free world to distract us from our own failings when it comes to the provision for families and children. Without a major shift in our own behaviour no one would ever see the UK as the best place for children to live, so let us use the latest images and words from the USA to act as a catalyst for our own nation to improve matters. The separation of families when they are listed as being due for Immigration Removal by the UK Government would be a good place to start. Locking adults up in places like Yarl’s Wood and thereby leaving their children to suffer elsewhere is one very obvious way we could pay stronger attention to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The fact that our education funding is so restricted and that the funding for Early Years education is even more impoverished is clearly another. Another example is the poor provision for disabled children in many of our Schools, then as we approach the Summer, the pressure on foodbanks as families who rely on School meals are left to their own devices will soon emerge as a major challenge across our nation. Then we need to use the images of the children in cages and the stories of the CBP acting in violent ways towards children as they try to cross the border into the USA, as a reminder of our sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia which leads to the death and injury of children in Yemen and our behaviour in Syria which impacts families there. The risk of looking at so many places where children are badly treated is that it leaves us feeling that whatever we do, we cannot resolve the need for children to be cared for, and therefore we will leave Trump and his uncaring administration to carry on. On the other hand if we consider our nation to be in a better place we might sit back and express our anger to the USA whilst forgetting that we have a great deal of work to do here in the UK. Clearly it is better to aim to promote the UNCRC wherever we are located and attempt to turn over every stone we can pick up.