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• Press Release - Government must act to protect vulnerable children excluded from school and exploited by criminal gangs warns children’s charity A new report by Just for Kids Law and CRAE highlights how vulnerable children are being excluded from school for behaviour resulting from being criminally exploited by gangs and drugs traffickers. Read more
• Call for Written Evidence: Civil Society Submission to the UN’s List of Issues This year sees the start of the UK’s examination under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). CRAE will be leading this process on behalf of civil society in England and warmly invites its members and other organisations and academics to send in written evidence to inform our submission which will set out suggestions for the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR).
  
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• Legal loophole leaves hundreds of vulnerable children facing homelessness to look after themselves New data published by Just for Kids Law and CRAE reveals that hundreds of vulnerable children facing homelessness are being left to fend for themselves without support in unregulated children’s homes due to a legal loophole. Read more
• Excluded, exploited, forgotten: Childhood criminal exploitation and school exclusions A new report by Just for Kids Law and CRAE highlights how vulnerable children are being excluded from school for behaviour resulting from being criminally exploited by gangs and drugs traffickers and urges the Government to act. Read more
• Briefing on the new Simplified Reporting Procedure The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN Committee) will next examine the UK in 2022. The UN Committee will assess how well the UK is implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Its last review of the UK was in 2016. The next review will be done under the new Simplified Reporting Procedure (SRP) meaning it will be slightly different to previous examinations.Our new briefing provides information on the new process, what it entails and how civil society organisations can get involved. Read more
• Written evidence to Education Select Committee Inquiry on Covid – response on children’s social care Read Just for Kids Law and CRAE's submission to the Education Select Committee Inquiry on the impact of Covid-19 on education and children’s social care. Read more