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How Children 's Rights Are Being Breached Within The Uk

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This assignment will address how children’s rights are being breached within the UK. Focusing mainly on (The Crime and Disorder Act, 1998) which is an Act currently used within the UK’s society. . (The Crime and Disorder Act, 1998) covers almost all aspects of children’s rights, however the main provisions of the Act are; Antisocial Behaviour order (ASBO), parenting orders and sex offender’s orders. (The United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child, 1990) became part of the UK’s Law in 1992, it has 54 articles that cover child welfare and safeguarding under ever circumstance. The aim of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child aim is to keep children’s rights intact and do their best to ensure these rights are not …show more content…

He is strongly believed to have taken his life as a consequence to the violence that was used on him. A lack of safeguarding training was given to the staff that dealt with Adam Rickwood on that day, and the use of the pain compliance nose distraction should not have been used in the way that it was. Due to this case, that was examined within the Carlile report, Some people argue that breaching many of these children’s rights is due to children being in custody, children in custody may breach rights from many different articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, however in Adam Rickwood’s case, it was Article Nineteen that was breached; ‘To protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment’ as when prison staff use restraining techniques such as nose and thumb distractions this can cause serious harm and can in fact lead to suicide. Other articles, however may also be breached in prison such as; Article seven ‘The right to know and be cared for by his or her parents’, this is breached within prison as the child has no access to their parents and are cared for by the prison staff. Within custody, it may also be argued that children do not receive the required hours of education needed, breaching article Twenty- eight, ‘the right of the child to education’. ‘’There are mandated hours for education in youth custody, not all children are receiving these

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