Doek's criticisms are fuelled by a damning report by the Children's Rights Alliance for England, which found there has been progress on only 17 of the 78 recommendations his committee issued the UK with two years ago to make its law, policy and practice compatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Though his comments in the press last week focused on the fact that the UK locks up more children than almost any other industrialised country, he is equally frank on other subjects.
Dismissing the government's compromise position on smacking, he rejects the very words children's minister Margaret Hodge used in her evidence to describe it to the joint committee on human rights.
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