The Mental Health Foundation has recently started a five year National project in partnership with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation called ‘Right Here’. www.right-here.org.uk. Right Here aims to explore how services for young people...
A UK firm is marketing an electronic device, The Mosquito, which is claimed to work by emitting a high-frequency sound that older people should not be able to hear. The firm openly markets it as a way of driving away ‘annoying teenagers...
Press release - “United Kingdom must reshape its juvenile justice system,” says Commissioner Hammarberg [STRASBOURG, 17 October 2008] – “The system of juvenile justice in the United Kingdom should be reformed. It is too...
Summary: In this 83 page edition (so wait a little for it to load, we are working on this) the Lead article takes British Tory leader, David Cameron, to task on child protection, there are articles on Play (including new Lottery-funded projects...
[LONDON, 18 September 2008] - The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) has just launched the latest edition of its Review 'Children's Right to the City'.In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population will be...
Mentally ill children and young people are still being failed by the NHS, the Children's Commissioner for England warned.Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green said some authorities were making good progress towards achieving Government targets of ensuring...
[22 August 2008] - An immigration removal centre has wrongfully detained disabled children and transports families in metal cages, the prisons' inspectorate has found. HM Inspectorate of Prisons said children were detained for too long and left...
[5 August 2008] - Children in the UK are being denied adventurous play because their parents are nervous about exposing them to risk, a new survey suggests. The UK-wide poll, commissioned by Play England, found half of 7-12 year olds have been...
[LONDON, 10 July 2008] - Britain should stop detaining thousands of children of foreigners seeking asylum, the Independent Asylum Commission said in a report published on Thursday.Calling for a comprehensive review of asylum seekers' treatment...
[LONDON, 9 July 2008] - Children being held in secure units are still subjected to restraining techniques designed for adults, with no consistent system of recording the reasons for its use, according to the prisons inspector.The problem is...
