The legal and social issues that surround sexual offences are complex and, by their very nature, dependant upon their own particular facts, writes Mark Barlow and Mark Newby. The protection more…

‘It was a lonely experience,’ said Hughes Cousins-Chang , describing being strip-searched and held in custody for over 12 hours, without being allowed to contact his mother. Hughes, a sixth-form more…

‘I hate to imagine how many children there were who complained of molestation or who were or knew they would be, if they did complain, subjected to corporal punishment of more…

What a difference a few days make. Some 48 hours after it recorded a massive 27 per cent leap in pre-tax profits, outsourcing giant Serco was told by a High more…

Young people in detention are amongst the most vulnerable groups in society in terms of accessing justice, writes Laura Janes. They tend to have only come across criminal lawyers who more…

This is the question now facing the Divisional Court following Mr Justice Hickingbottom giving permission to bring a challenge to the government over the new provisions which came into force more…

In England and Wales, the age from which children can be arrested, detained at police stations and questioned as part of an investigation is 10, writes Harriet Balcombe. This is more…

The 1992 Leicestershire Inquiry chaired by Andrew Kirkwood QC looked into allegations of abuse and maltreatment at a number of children’s homes in Leicestershire. The officer in charge of the more…

So, according to the House of Commons’ education select committee, it seems the care pendulum should be swinging back towards more children being placed in care. It’s interesting and maybe more…

ESSAY: Metropolitan Police Commander Peter Spindler described the Savile Case as a watershed in abuse investigations praising the media and the victims for exposing the scale of the abuse by more…

The case of ‘Tommy’ highlights everything that is wrong in practice with the system that is supposed to support children ‘in need’. Jon Robins wrote about Tommy in an article more…

A 2011 study by the Children’s Commissioner for England raised concerns about both the quality and variation in standards of care for young offenders with mental health issues, writes Kim more…

PHOTO ESSAY: This is Amy – she is 17 years’ old – after a dispute with her mother five months ago over a desire to visit her father (serving 12 more…

ANALYSIS: I read with dismay the latest government proposals regarding the so called ‘streamlining’ of anti social behaviour orders (Asbos), and the proposed powers to put power to force the more…

After arriving at Gatwick Airport at midnight, I spent an hour queuing at passport control. It was inconvenient but hardly life-threatening. For the many young children, and for the elderly more…

A High Court judge yesterday blamed a ‘Hello magazine’ culture to marriage for fuelling a dramatic rise in divorce.  Sir Paul Coleridge, who sits in the Family Division, speaking on more…

The High Court last week ordered a toddler be returned to her parents after she was removed at birth following the death of her brother in 2009 bringing to an more…

The Al-Alas Wray case centred around care proceedings brought by the local authority, the London Borough of Islington, in respect of the parents’ new born baby Jayda Wray, following the more…