Press releases
Children's Rights Bill to be debated in Parliament
5 March 2010
The Children’s Rights Bill was due to receive its second reading in the House of Lords today and bring hope for rights protection to some of the UK’s most vulnerable children. Unfortunately the Bill will not be debated today due to lack of time, but Baroness Walmsley is hopeful of getting an alternative date for the debate later this month.
Political momentum growing for lowering the voting age to 16
15 February 2010
The Children's Rights Alliance for England strongly welcomes the news that the Co-operative Movement now backs votes at 16.
Get ready for Parliament!
5 February 2010
On Tuesday 2 February at an event in Parliament, Get ready activists called on the Government to do more to protect and respect children’s rights. On behalf of over 200 young activists involved in CRAE’s Get ready project, Adam, Daniel-Sean, Imogen, Sana and Rhasan launched the Get ready for action! report, which presents the findings and recommendations from three campaigns run by children and young people over the last year. They set out their demands of Government in relation to children’s human rights, and spoke about the impact children have had on the United Nations reporting process for the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Edlington brothers receive indefinite sentence but will not be named
22 January 2010
In a move welcomed by children’s rights organisations, the 11 and 12 year-old brothers who were sentenced today for grave attacks on two boys in Edlington in April 2009 will not be named following the refusal by the judge in Sheffield Crown Court of a media application to lift reporting restrictions. However, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England believes the indefinite sentence passed on the two boys violates international legal requirements to make child custody a genuine last resort for the shortest possible period of time, and to prioritise rehabilitation when dealing with child offenders. The decision to place the young boys' names on the sex offenders' register is wholly inappropriate and unnecessary.
Over one million children fail to get legal advice every year
26 October 2009
Over one million children and young people annually are not getting the legal advice they need, warns a campaign launched today by four leading advice charities. As a result, children and young people are being denied their rights to liberty, security, shelter and education, warns the JustRights campaign, which brings together Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Howard League for Penal Reform, Law Centres Federation and Youth Access.
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