The Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children has completed along-running inquiry into the relationship between the state and thefamily in the upbringing of children.
Its final report calls on the Government to introduce the criminalstandard of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" when issuing Asbos and topreserve the anonymity of young offenders in receipt of Asbos. It saysthat the age of criminal responsibility should be raised to 12 andrecommends that parenting orders be restricted to those who haverejected support.
The commission was established last year by the National Family andParenting Institute and children's charity NCH. It is chaired by theeminent child psychologist Michael Rutter. Members include WilliamUtting, chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Stephen Burke,former director of the Daycare Trust.
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