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What’s wrong with remanding children to prison?
This report discusses the experiences of children on remand and how practitioners can effectively support children with bail applications and resettlement.
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Child arrests in England and Wales 2019
Howard League briefing on arrests of children in England and Wales in 2019
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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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