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Carolyne Willow: It's time for a Children's Rights Bill

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
After the Bill of Rights legislation was shelved, justice minister Sarah Dines explained in answer to a parliamentary question: “As is the case whenever a new government is formed, we are now looking again at the Bill of Rights to ensure that it meets the government's objectives.”

Chloe Juliette: All children in care deserve to be heard

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Imagine you were me. You grew up in care and now you’re in your early 20s, and you are, once again, standing in front of a room full of strangers who you’ll probably never see again, in the hopes of improving the care system.

Turing programme will fail disadvantaged young people

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Drowned out by the noise of Brexit and the pandemic, the government’s broken promise to remain a member of the Erasmus+ overseas study scheme has been largely overlooked. Yet, the failure to reach an agreement regarding its membership of the scheme post-Brexit, continues to have a devastating impact on young people.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.