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Your Rights During Covid-19
A leaflet to help young people in custody and reassure them that their rights have not disappeared
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Ending the detention of unsentenced children during the Covid-19 pandemic
This guide provides legal and practical guidance for defence lawyers to resist applications to remand children to custody.
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Children in prison during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Howard League’s legal work and contact with children during the Covid-19 pandemic shows that this is a particularly difficult time for children in custody
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Victims not Criminals: Protecting children living in residential care from criminal exploitation
This is the sixth briefing from the Howard League’s programme to end the criminalisation of children in residential care.
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Supporting children from custody into the community
This guide has been designed to help staff in custody to use the law protecting children’s rights to ensure that children leave custody at the earliest opportunity with the support they need
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All our children
The work of the Howard League to make the rights of children in trouble a reality in England and Wales
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‘Know your numbers’: Using data to monitor and address criminalisation
This is the fifth briefing from the Howard League’s programme to end the criminalisation of children in residential care.
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Sentencing principles for young adults
The report sets out how principled guidelines would help judges and magistrates to understand young adults better, and provide a legal framework to achieve better sentencing decisions.
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‘This is our story’: Children and young people on criminalisation in residential care
This is the fourth in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care.
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Sentencing Young Adults
This report makes the case for sentencing principles for young adults.
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