Wales has a role to play in ending child Labour. That was the message from Plaid AM Bethan Jenkins on the world day against child labour. Ms Jenkins has called on people in Wales to use their purchase power to bring an end to child labour around the world by ensuring that the products they buy aren't the products of under aged workers. ... full story

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Child “M” is an eight year old school child attending a primary school in Manchester . Child “M” was held in detention at Yarls Wood for 52 days this summer. There can be no justification for imprisoning an eight year old child. Child “M” cannot be named for legal reasons. Child “M” is here in the UK

I am very pleased that this country has decided to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child in full: "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth." U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) Se also here.

The number of children from working families living in poverty has increased by ten per cent since 1997, when Labour came to power.

Along with "paedophilia", the term "child" has become so expanded as to risk losing coherent meaning. In terms of child protection legislation, a child is anyone below the age of 18 years. That you can drive, have sex, get married and go to war whilst still a "child" is just to highlight our decidedly convoluted views on these matters.

A TOTAL of 7.8 million families in the UK receive child benefit, with £20.30 a week for the eldest child, and £13.40 for every other child.

So Labour have decided to go for "Dead beat Dads", by yet again re-announcing they are considering taking away driving licenses and passports from Dads who don't pay their child support. ( Shouldn't this be parents ? And if Dad's are so genetically responsible - how come they can't successfully sue for being fooled into bringing up someone else's child ? But I digress as t...

Time is running out. Its now becoming harder and harder for the like of the child Ed Miliband to pretend the government has even the slightest grip on the UK's future power generation requirements. Labour have failed here also. The big and urgent challenge will fall to the next government. Its time for some honest grown up debate here. The eco-thugs who try to create criminal damage to power ...

In the last few weeks, there has been much speculation that child benefit would be stopped when a child reaches 16. Today’s announcement suggests that this is not going to happen, although the Tories are refusing to rule it out. If there are to be changes to child benefit — and given the financial situation there need to be — then removing it from households with a higher rate ta...