Press releases
Child protection to be relaxed in schools
6 August 2010
The Government has quietly dropped a duty on schools to record when staff use force on children and to report the incident to the child’s parents, doing so just days before Parliament went into recess. The duty on schools, established in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, was set to come into force on 1 September with the new school term. However, the Government has introduced secondary legislation to prevent the duty coming into force. This follows the recent announcement by Schools Minister Nick Gibb to revise guidelines governing the use of force in schools, and to give anonymity to teachers facing accusations from students.
What will the Freedom Bill do for children?
8 July 2010
Today, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) launches a consultation with its members – including children – to find out which laws they can’t wait to remove to benefit children and young people, and which laws they’d like to see put in place to reinstate lost rights.
Coalition Government threatens to turn teachers into prison officers
7 July 2010
The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) strongly opposes today's (7 July) announcement that schools will be given extensive new powers to search children without their consent.
Child restraint manual to be released in full
5 July 2010
After three years of secrecy and resistance, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has agreed to hand over the instructors' manual which governs the use of physical restraint in the country's four privately-run child prisons. This victory for child protection comes days before the YJB and Ministry of Justice were set to argue at an Information Tribunal appeal hearing that handing over the document would pose a serious risk to prison security and public safety. The YJB was appealing against an order by the Information Commissioner in December 2009 that the document be given to the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE). It has now withdrawn its appeal, days before the hearing.
Pressure mounts on UK to ban anti-child electronic devices
25 June 2010
The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has today (25 June) unanimously agreed that Governments and local authorities in member states should ban electronic devices that deliberately emit a high-pitched noise to deter under 25s from using public spaces and facilities. The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has been pushing for the prohibition of these devices for several years and alerted UN human rights bodies to lack of action by the former Government to protect the fundamental human rights of children and young people.
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