The Carnegie Trust has published a report that says that children and young adults are the last minority in Britain routinely discriminated against.

Empowering Young People is the final report of the Carnegie Young People Initiative, which ran between 1996 and 2007.

The Trust believes that attitudes to younger people have barely changed since the UK’s adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991 and that radical steps are needed to correct the balance.

The report calls on the government to consider establishing a new professional class to work with young people to integrate them with the rest of society, and is also critical of negative portrayals of children and young people in the media.

The report is available to download from the Carnegie Trust website.