Source: Community Care |
Date: 2001-05-10
...rights safeguards are needed for new child curfew powers, according to a House of Commons...exercise of powers to make and operate the curfew schemes. The legitimate aims of...persons and to maintain public order, child curfew schemes may be disproportionate interferences...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2004-11-12
...RSS Feeds Printer friendly version Curfews are an Attack on Freedom Friday 12...half-way through their teens. If curfews were a mechanism to keep young people...granted legal aid to challenge a blanket curfew imposed by the local council. There has...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2006-02-01
...Printer friendly version Home detention curfews don't work, report finds Maria Ahmed...female prisoners released on home detention curfews with electronic tags are more likely to breach their curfews and end up back in jail compared to other...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-05-02
...Children Scotland this week attacked child curfews such as the initiative in Hamilton...groups and youth clubs, rather than more curfews, would help to reduce crime. Alison...Save the Children Scotland, warned that curfews could further alienate young people...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-05-02
...Children Scotland this week attacked child curfews such as the initiative in Hamilton...groups and youth clubs, rather than more curfews, would help to reduce crime. Alison...Save the Children Scotland, warned that curfews could further alienate young people...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2004-08-19
...almost three-quarters of English and Welsh councils have issued curfews for teenagers during the summer evenings. Councils...the streets between 9pm and 6am. Young people breaking the curfews could face a £2,500 fine or three months in prison...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-06-22
...expressed concern that no local authorities have used child curfew schemes introduced under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998...children and the fact that no applications have been made for curfews probably means the need is not there as "less strenuous measures...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2001-01-02
...00 Opinion is almost equally divided among visitors to this website about whether the government's proposal to extend curfews to children under 16 is workable. The weekly poll reveals that 49 per cent believe the plan can work, but a slight majority...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2001-02-01
... The government is set on extending curfews to include young people up to the age...public order policy than the local child curfew scheme. Two years after this section...during specified hours, not a single curfew order has been issued. Despite...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2005-07-20
...has ruled that police powers to impose curfews on under-16s breach the European Convention...Court today. The Court found that the curfew power could not have been intended to...power to use force.” Under the curfew legislation, any unaccompanied child...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-04-13
...Strathclyde Police and South Lanarkshire Council has been extended by a year for further evaluation. Under the scheme, dubbed a curfew by civil rights campaigners, children found on the streets late at night are returned to their homes by police. Strathclyde...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-05-03
...Wednesday 03 May 2000 00:00 Child curfews could be changed to cover children up...local authorities failed to impose any curfews according to first-year figures. The latest Home Office figures show no child curfews have been issued since the new power...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2004-09-21
...the government’s policy of placing curfews on under-16s in certain areas in a...will argue that the operation of a 9pm curfew in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey...quarters of English and Welsh councils issued curfews for teenagers during the summer evenings...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-05-08
...authorities are to be asked why they have failed to apply for child curfew orders to protect unruly under-tens from being sucked into...idea when first proposed. The Home Office claims child curfews - to keep children below the age of criminal responsibility...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-12-14
...not escape the notice of social workers. Schemes to extend curfews to children up to the age of 16 sound punitive and staff could find themselves being the arbiters of decisions about whether a curfew is appropriate. But if the Conservatives are right even...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2005-06-01
...could have implications for the future use of dispersal and curfew powers. The case, backed by Liberty, is based on the...suspected of wrongdoing should be subject to sanctions such as curfews and police arrest. Alex Gask, Liberty’s legal officer who...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2004-08-26
...friendly version Thursday 26 August 2004 00:00 Fifty-nine per cent of visitors to Community Care's website believe curfews have not helped to reduce antisocial behaviour in their area. What do you think? Have your say on CareSpace. Keep...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2000-05-10
...E-Newsletters Jobs by Email RSS Feeds Printer friendly version Wednesday 10 May 2000 00:00 The controversial curfew initiative by Strathclyde Police and South Lanarkshire Council seems certain to be extended. The six-month pilot ended...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2005-07-29
...force to remove unaccompanied children from curfew zones, <b><i>writes Gordon Carson...force to remove unaccompanied children from curfew zones, writes Gordon Carson. The...councils and police forces that use the curfew powers to crack down on antisocial...
Source: Community Care |
Date: 2005-03-31
...failed to convince the High Court that a curfew imposed on him as part of an antisocial...case last week, judges ruled that the curfew, which confined Ashley Lonergan, 19...Justice Kay rejected the argument that the curfew amounted to a "penalty," going beyond...
