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.

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.

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...

Child Benefit has been found dead after HM Customs and Revenue lost the personal information of nearly 25 million UK citizens in the post - fatally compromising the integrity of both the government and the Child Benefit system and leading to the impending bankruptcy of the nation's children in a financial disaster even more embarrassing than the Northern Rock cock-up. Child Benefit was the proud b...

A database containing details of every child in England will be rolled out today to ensure "faster contact" between doctors, social workers and police if they suspect a child is at risk. ContactPoint, a £224m directory, will contain the name, address, date of birth, GP and school of all under-18s &# as well as the name and contact details of any professional working with that child.

As you know, there is no such thing as child poverty in the United Kingdom. That does not stop leftists from gibbering on about it, although the new term is "relative poverty". Ranting Rab deals with the lastest lefty lunacy..... As for 'child poverty', I'm struggling to understand what child poverty actually is in this country. I've never seen a child with rickets. Nor a malno...

From LifeSiteNews By Kathleen Gilbert Ontario police yesterday celebrated the results of a province-wide child pornography bust, the largest in Ontario's history - yet officers acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of the massive underworld of child sexual abuse in North America. Police officers said at a press conference Thursday that the sweep led to the arrest of 31 child sex of...

By Neil O'Brien In the FT this morning Nick Timmins suggests that the Conservatives are considering widening the child poverty target into a wider set of indicators in order to get a more in-depth measure of poverty. The current child...