Important campaign from The Howard League. We're dismayed the Government is seriously considering arming custody staff with harmful irritant sprays to use on children. The Council of Europe Committee for Prevention of Torture raised concern about use of PAVA in confined spaces back in 2016.

'When PAVA spray was piloted in prisons holding adults, the evaluation findings indicated that it did nothing to reduce violence and in fact had a detrimental effect on relationships between staff and the people living there.'

howardleague.org/blog/dont-let-…

Thanks for this Times Law profile Catherine Baksi
Aika's vital, important book In Their Defence: Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time is out 25th April.
Just for Kids Law
Pre-order here: waterstones.com/book/in-their-…

In The Brief this week from The Times and The Sunday Times, read Catherine Baksi's latest In Conversation column, a chat with Aika Stephenson, founder of Just for Kids Law. thetimes.co.uk/article/i-want…

Proud to stand with 121 other orgs calling for sufficient funds for UNChildRights to enable it to hold States to account on #ChildRights obligations

Joint letter on the cancellation of the May pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child childrightsconnect.org/joint-letter-o…

Congratulations to the Young Advocates on this fantastic report. Essential reading for anyone interested in #childrights #youthjustice or #policing

On this day 14 years ago, the Child Poverty Act was established with a goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020.

However in 2016 the Act was abolished under a new UK Government and the targets were abandoned.

Today, one in four children live in poverty in the UK
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Interested in studying Children'sRightsQUB ? We have a range of exciting PG programmes on offer in both #ChildRights & #YouthJustice including 2 new distance learning PG Certificates. Find out more at our webinar on Thurs 9 May, 3pm GMT - register here - qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/web…