Press releases
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 It has now withdrawn its appeal, days before the hearing.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.
Bill of Rights could strengthen the rights of children
20 May 2010
The coalition Government's full agreement, published today, announces a Commission to investigate a British Bill of Rights which would build on all of the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights. The Children’s Rights Alliance for England welcomes this as an opportunity to consider how the Human Rights Act has improved children’s lives and to agree additional protection for children and others. We have long campaigned for the Convention on the Rights of the Child to be part of UK law.
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8 June 2010 - one year since the UK ratified the