Submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights: Call for evidence on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
The AYJ has published written evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) on the implications of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill for children. As the JCHR recognises, the PCSC Bill is extremely wide-ranging. While we have numerous concerns across many different aspects of the Bill – set out in detail in our submission to the Public Bill Committee – we have narrowed these down to three principal concerns regarding the impact on children’s rights. These are the ways in which the Bill: fails to treat children as children, will increase the incarceration of children, and will exacerbate racial disparities.
AYJ Director, Pippa Goodfellow, also gave oral evidence to the JCHR on the children’s rights implications of the PCSC Bill which can be found here.