The news this week that 12 Scottish children’s charities (including the Children’s Commissioner) are calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 12 is something that I would hope could be mirrored in the rest of the UK. Having successfully campaigned within the Lib Dems to make it party policy to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, 12 would at least be a step in the right direction.
The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is currently 10 - a fact that the UN in particular has raised concerns about. The fact is we have the lowest age of criminal responsibility in the EU.
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