The report by the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel De Souza, examined the experiences of children who were involved in the violent protests that followed the murder of three young girls in Southport last July.
It depicts a justice system often operating at odds with the child-first principles it adopted in 2021 to ensure children are treated as children and recognise that they are developmentally different from adults and require different support.
De Souza found that many of the children involved in the riots had never been in trouble with the law before, were engaged in training or education and had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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