The Crime and Disorder Legislation was created on 2nd December 1997 but received Royal Assent in July 1998. The key areas of the Crime and Disorder Legislation is the introduction of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, Sex Offender Orders, granting local authorities more powers/responsibilities to reduce crime and disorder, Parenting Orders and the introduction to laws regarding ‘racially aggravated’ offences. This act abolished the fact that a person between ten and fourteen years old can commit an offence. The Legislation also abolished the death penalty if you committed treason or piracy. ASBO's The act also introduced an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order).
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Protects the rights of all those with disabilities. It also places a duty on schools and other organisations to eliminate barriers to ensure that individuals can gain equal access to services. Disability Discrimination Act 2005 Places a duty for schools to produce a Disability Equality Scheme. Schools must encourage participation in all aspects of school, eliminate harassment and unlawful discrimination. Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 Makes it unlawful for education providers to discriminate against special educational need or disability.
|Article 9 (Separation from parents): | |Children have the right to live with their parent(s), unless it is bad for them. Children whose parents do not live together have | |the right to stay in contact with both parents, unless this might hurt the child. | |Article 19 (Protection from all forms of violence): | |Children have the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated, physically or mentally. Governments should ensure that | |children are properly cared for and protect them from violence, abuse and neglect by their parents, or anyone else who looks after | |them
Act gives a comprehensive list of sex offences to protect individuals from abuse and exploitation, and is designed to be fair and non-discriminatory. 2. Mental Capacity Act. 2005 The Mental Capacity Act is designed to protect people who can't make decisions for themselves or lack the mental capacity to do so. This could be due to a mental health condition, a severe learning disability, a brain injury, a stroke or unconsciousness due to an anaesthetic or sudden accident.
The first article I will summarize is Corporal Punishment and Its Implications for Exceptional Children. This article begins by discussing the 1977 corporal punishment case of Ingraham vs. Wright. It examines the legal basis behind corporal punishment and the rationale that support or oppose its use. This article emphasizes the results corporal punishment has on children with exceptional needs and how it affects their behavior and learning. The author’s main view is that corporal punishment not be used on children with exceptional needs until further studies have been done on the subject.
• It creates two new schemes for dealing with youth crime: child safety orders, which apply to children under the age of 10, and parenting orders, which are made against the parents of a child who has been given an anti-social behaviour order. • Creates sex offender orders, which bar offenders from activities and areas frequented by children. • Abolishes the death penalty for treason or piracy. • Introduces separate offences for crimes that were aggravated by the victim's race or presumed race. • Obliges local authorities, the police and other local bodies to draw up a crime and disorder strategy covering their area.
• Arrangements for sharing information has been reviewed and changed Vetting and barring The scheme was introduced in 2009 to stop unsuitable people working with vulnerable children and adults this scheme does the following: • a person who is barred from working with children or vulnerable adults will be breaking the law if they work or volunteer, or try to work or volunteer with those group. There are many policies and procedures within the UK that outline the current legislation and guidelines to help with safeguarding children and young people. The Children Act 1989 The integral part of this act is to maintain the child is at the forefront of decisions; the best option in relation to the child’s welfare will be taken into account when deciding the best course of action for the child/young person’s upbringing – creating a partnership between parents and multi-agencies. Alongside this, the requirement
residence, contact, prohibited steps, specific issues. A child is now able to initiate action; he is permitted to instruct a solicitor and have legal aid, since 1990 children have been assessed on their own means making it easier to secure legal aid, as long as the ‘m, and to have contact with those people they want to see. Leave will be granted only if the courts are satisfied that the child has sufficient understanding to make the application (section 10(8)). The judge must be convinced that the child understands the consequences of his action. Newspaper headlines have suggested that children can thus ‘divorce’ their parents, which is untrue, as it is not possible to divorce parents with parental responsibility.
Prior to Megan’s Law, there was The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. This bill went in front of the House of Representatives on November 6, 2007, to modify the minimum standards for electronic monitoring units used to monitor sexual offenders (HR 4094 IH). Today, there is need for more than a community notice informing us that a sexual offender is living near our families and friends. What worked well in 2007 does not work in 2010. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 needs to be amended once again if we are to keep our children safe in these perilous times.
It also involves protecting children and young people from maltreatment and preventing impairment of a child’s health and development by ensuring children are raised in positive circumstances by providing safe and caring environments. Parents and carers who fail to protect or care for their children could then be taken to court and the child be then removed from the home and placed in care. The UN Convention is a set of principles about the way how to protect children from discrimination, neglect and abuse. It is the principal children's treaty, covering a full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It grants rights for children in peacetime as well as during armed conflict, and provides for the implementation of those rights.