Special Children's Week 2025 Event - Dr Naomi Lott

Naomi is  the leading academic voice on children’s right to play, having published the first legal monograph on the right ‘The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation’ with Routledge in 2023. This monograph, hailed as ‘the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of a neglected but vital right’, and as ‘essential reading for anyone in law, public policy and decision making, anyone involved in the education of children or teachers, and all those whose decision making touches the lives of children’. Naomi’s work on the right to play, including her framework for implementing the right to play – space, time, acceptance, rights-informed (published in the Human Rights Law Review in 2025), has been used has informed the work of policy actors and civil society organisations throughout the UK and internationally, including the work of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Naomi was appointed as an expert commissioner to the Play Commission, conducting a national inquiry on play. Naomi’s work on the right to play has been used to inform teaching on the broader children’s rights framework including on children’s economic, social and cultural rights, the legal status of UN treaty body outputs, and methods for examining the scope and content of rights.

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