The nation's 16- and 17-year-olds live in a "legislative shadowland" where public services conflict and are inconsistent. That was one of Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board's conclusions after investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl in April 2007 (CYP Now, 23-29 April). The shadowland described is the situation where a person is legally a child under the Children Act, but has a...