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High court issues damning judgment on ‘widespread unlawful use of restraint’ in child prisons run by G4S and Serco
11 January 2012
In a judgment handed down this afternoon (11 January), a High Court Judge says it is highly likely that large numbers of children were unlawfully restrained in secure training centres (STCs) for at least a decade (1998-2008). Furthermore, none of the statutory agencies charged with monitoring children's care took action to stop the unlawful treatment.
United Nations adopts communications procedure for children's rights
19 December 2011
The United Nations General Assembly has today (19 December 2011) adopted a third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This will enable children living in member states that ratify the Optional Protocol to bring children's rights complaints to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva (once national mechanisms have been exhausted).
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.
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