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18 March 2009

CRAE has recently produced a report based on its survey of all directors of children’s services about local implementation of the UNCRC (140 out of a total of 150 responded).

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CRAE sends children’s rights impact statement to Ed Balls

17 February 2009

CRAE’s national co-ordinator, Mike Lindsay, has written to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with CRAE’s Children’s rights impact assessment of The Children’s Plan One Year On: a progress report.

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Message from Dr Mike Lindsay, CRAE’s new national co-ordinator

21 January 2009

We were delighted to welcome Dr Mike Lindsay as CRAE’s new national co-ordinator earlier this month. Mike has taken over the role until December 2009, while Carolyne Willow takes a year’s unpaid leave.

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Government misses opportunity to protect children in custody

15 December 2008

The Government has today (15 December 2008) ignored its human rights obligations to children in secure training centres (STCs) by endorsing the use of deliberately painful restraint techniques by prison staff on children as young as 12 (so-called ‘pain compliant’ techniques).

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Most people don’t understand children’s human rights say children’s organisations

10 December 2008

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 60th Anniversary, a survey of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has found that 97% of its members do not think that the general public has a good understanding of children’s human rights.

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