General Article UK youth justice system risks breaching children’s rights, says UNICEF UK

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UNICEF UK raises serious concerns over children’s human rights within the UK youth justice system.

A new report from UNICEF UK finds that the UK youth justice system is failing children and risks breaching their human rights. Key areas for concern identified within the report include the over representation of children from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds within the youth justice system, unsatisfactory conditions within youth detention, the widetspread use of in-humane pra...

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