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Children's footprints make their way to Downing Street
16 December 2011
Thousands of children across the country have sent messages to the Prime Minister on cardboard and paper footprints, to mark the start of a year of action on children's rights. The messages were hand delivered to Downing Street by children and young people this morning, marking the 20th anniversary of the UK making a legally binding agreement with the United Nations to uphold the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Children's rights campaigners accuse Ministers of flouting Ministerial Code
7 December 2011
A report from the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) today accuses the coalition Government of systematically breaching international law that protects children's rights. Ministers are flouting The Ministerial Code which requires them to act in accordance with international law and their treaty obligations.
Child restraint victims should be informed they were treated unlawfully
22 November 2011
Children's rights campaigners will argue in the High Court today that the authorities have a duty to notify former detainees of secure training centres (STCs) that they may have been unlawfully restrained and are entitled to compensation and other forms of redress. The two-day hearing coincides with new statistics being released to Parliament showing that Government officials have been handed 285 separate reports of children's lives being endangered and of restraint leading to serious injuries and hospitalisation in the four STCs since 2006.
Send your footprint to Downing Street
16 November 2011
Friday 16 December 2011 is the 20th anniversary of the UK Government ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We want YOU to help us celebrate and push for even more change for children - by sending your footprint to 10 Downing Street!
Welsh Assembly votes for ending legal assault of children
20 October 2011
Members of the National Assembly for Wales have voted for a new law to remove the "reasonable punishment" defence for assaults against children. If the plans go ahead it would make Wales the first country in the UK to give children the same protection that adults already enjoy under the law on assault.
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