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10 June 2010
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News: Understanding young people’s experience of custody
Over the coming month the Office of the Children's Commissioner and the Youth Justice Board will be a publishing a report by User Voice. The report will focus on young people with experience of...10 June 2010
News: South east participation pilot project launches
In April, we launched a new pilot with six local authorities in south east England to develop and encourage excellent and meaningful participation of children and young people in decision-making....10 June 2010
Comment: Government pledge to end the detention of children in the immigration system
The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England has UK-wide responsibility for issues relating to asylum-seeking children. We have been working for a number of years to expose and...10 June 2010
Focus on: The Equality Act 2010
We worked closely with the Young Equals Campaign to call for children to be included in the public sector age discrimination part of the Equality Act 2010. Although the Act received Royal Assent on...10 June 2010
Interview: Headliners journalist Anila Dhami talks to Sue Berelowitz
Deputy Children's Commissioner and Chief Executive, Sue discusses her job role, the arrival of a new Government, and the Office of the Children's Commissioner's commitment to promoting awareness of...10 June 2010
Partners: It’s not all about right and wrong
Tim Bateman, Reader in Youth Justice at the University of Bedfordshire describes how an understanding of the way in which children's brains develop should inform our approach to youth...10 June 2010
Making an impact: children's rights
The 2004 Children Act that set up the Office of the Children's Commissioner says that our work should ‘have regard' to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and we have...10 June 2010
Success story: Kraig Haughton
My name is Kraig Haughton and I have been a Volunteer Police Cadet since the age of 14. I first heard of the cadets through my friends in school who were already established within our local cadet...
