The new ARCH blog is here
For the past few years I’ve had emails at least twice a week inviting me to shell out £400+ for conferences with catchy titles like ‘Making it Happen For Everyone: The Valuing People Now Str...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/getting-with-the-programme/
Mark Easton has written a very good piece on the conviction of two young boys at the Old Bailey on Monday for the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl. See also Chris Mills’ excellent post ...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/a-logically-impossible-position/
You may have seen articles in the press about bloodspots taken from newborn babies being kept for years after the event. Shortly after birth, the baby’s heel is pricked and the blood transferre...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/bloody-database/
Our celebration at the news that children would no longer be incarcerated in asylum detention centres seems to have been premature. Child detention ended at the notorious Dungavel centre yesterda...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/months-simply-will-not-do/
Apologies for our silence over the last few days. We’ve been getting the hang of Twitter. If you would like to follow us there, you can find us at http://twitter.com/ARCH_rights
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/arch-on-twitter/
The Child Rights Information Network has an interesting piece on children’s rights to freedom of expression (Article 13 of the UNCRC) This sentence particularly caught my eye: ‘…arguments c...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/when-protection-trumps-civil-rights/
If you missed ‘Erasing David’ on More4 earlier this week, it’s online at Channel 4 for 28 days here.
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/erasing-david-now-online/
End Child Detention has been exchanging letters with Gordon Brown on the appalling and inhumane practice of placing asylum seeking families in detention centres – a practice that has drawn enor...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/brown-brushes-off-the-child-detention-issue/
Unbelievable: Ministers spent tens of thousands of pounds on mugs and pens to promote a controversial new children’s database, it was revealed today. Teachers’ leaders accused the government ...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/contactpoint-little-extras/
A nice interview in Community Care with Eileen Munro on her plans for improving child protection: Munro wants to wipe the slate clean. “We’re not talking about trimming back the current forms...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/refocussing-child-protection/
Disappointing to see the Scottish Children’s Commissioner applauding early intervention. Speaking at crime reduction charity Nacro’s annual conference in Nottingham, Tam Baillie said indicato...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/policy-making-without-evidence/
The move to online services in education continues apace: Becta has told English secondary schools to provide online reports for all pupils by September…Ultimately, the agency wants all schools...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/left-and-right-hands-still-out-of-sync/
News in the tech press that the NHS has been visited by Qakbot – a worm with a keen appetite for peoples’ sensitive data. (Despite the name it wasn’t specifically designed to target the NHS...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/quacking-information-security/
We have been vaguely promising for ages to produce a guide for parents about children’s privacy, and we’ve finally done it in conjunction with the ‘Erasing David’ team. It’s here (pdf) ...
https://archrights.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/parents-privacy-guide/