This Bill has been introduced to remove the ability of the Sentencing Council to issue Sentencing Guidelines which frame a request for a pre-sentence report
Tag: child rights
A Hope List for IWD 2024
‘Hope locates itself in the premise that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is the room to act.’
Time : Episode 2
*spoilers ‘The world’s not a straightforward place for a woman’ Season 2 , Episode 2 of Time by Jimmy McGovern, gives us insights into the complexity
When we jail a mother we condemn her child too
Including the proposed amendments in the Police, Crime, sentencing and Courts Bill isn’t about special treatment for women. It is about fair and just treatment for children, like Alice’s daughter, who desperately need to be more than just an afterthought.
The death of Baby A
I was invited on to the Radio 4 Today programme to reflect on the issues raised by the terrible death of Baby A. In summary these are the reflections I shared.
Does every child have a right to family life?
It may well have been a proportionate response to stop physical visits on the 23rd March in the light of the public health crisis, but the total removal of the right to family life through contact with their parent, of every child with a parent in prison, extending now for 100+ days, seems to be neither reasonable nor proportionate.
Dr Shona Minson 