On this page you can search and filter the UN recommendations submitted to the UK
Government should: (a) Remove laws allowing people to be detained and treated without their consent on the basis of their...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards, and stop the use of isolation measures...
Government should: (a) Do more to reduce the number of children in care, including by funding early intervention and prevention...
Government should: (a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to at least 14; (b) Take action, including by changing...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Consider raising the minimum age of criminal...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, put child justice standards into practice and ban...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of...
Government should: Introduce a fair legal time limit to the detention of asylum seekers, use detention only as a last...
Government should: Consider banning solitary confinement of juveniles. Consider prohibiting the use of solitary confinement for juveniles...
Government should: Look at reviewing the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Evaluate revising the minimum age...
Government should: Take urgent action to end corporal punishment of children and raise the age of criminal responsibility in line...
Government should: (a) Introduce laws to ban any use against children of harmful devices (spit hoods, tasers, plastic bullets, attenuating...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Take action to deal with the disproportionately high numbers of young people of African descent and other ethnic...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years, in line with international standards. Raise the age of...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 across the UK. Consider raising the age...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to at...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14...
Government should: Raise the age of criminal responsibility. Raise the age of criminal responsibility, which stands at ten at the...
Government should: Set a legal limit on immigration detention. It should be a last resort, for the shortest time possible....
Government should: (a) Protect children from gang-related violence and knife crime and deal with the problem by: • dealing with...
Government should: (a) Reduce the number of deaths of infants and children, including among boys in the Overseas Territories; address...
Government should: (a) End the use of restraint for reasons relating to disability. Prevent the use of Tasers against disabled...
Government should: Align the UK's juvenile justice systems in line with UN advice and: (a) Increase the age of criminal...
Government should: Promote a full health service (including mental health) in line with the duty introduced by the Health and...
Government should: Review its reservations to articles 10 (on separating under 18s in detention from adults), 14 (on free legal...
Government should: (a) Raise the age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. Follow international standards for juvenile justice. (b)...
Government should: (a) Ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual assault, against children in detention are investigated quickly and...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Adapt the youth justice system in line with advice issued by...
Government should: Ensure the governments of Northern Ireland and Wales regularly review the impact of stop and search powers on...
Government should: Investigate the disproportionate number of black people and people of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system across...
Government should consider UN advice on children's right to freedom from all forms of violence and: (a) Ban the use...
Government should: (a) In line with UN advice, urgently ban physical punishment in the family. (b) Ensure that physical punishment...
Government should: (a) Collect data on child mental health, paying particular attention to children in vulnerable situations. (b) Adequately fund...
Government should: (a) Ensure all under 18s are protected from prostitution, pornography and trafficking. Ensure UK laws can also be...
Read our assessment of the UK Government’s progress on youth...
Government should: (a) Consider raising the UK army minimum recruitment age to 18. (b) Prevent the targeting and recruitment of...
Government should: Put into practice the UN's previous recommendation on captured child soldiers for all under 18s: Ensure children can...
Government should: Put an end to life sentences for minors, in line with the CRC. Abolish the life sentence for...
Government should: Consider ending automatic life sentences for offenders aged under 18. Consider abolishing the mandatory imposition of life imprisonment...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to meet international standards. End automatic life sentences for offenders aged...
Government should: Consider changing the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Consider revising the minimum age of criminal responsibility...
Government should: Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. In line with the recommendations of...
Government should: Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility, in line with international standards. Raise the minimum age of criminal...
UK Government actions: In July 2022, the Cabinet Office published its Annual Report on Major Projects 2021/22. It assigned the...
We welcome the reduction in the number of children in custody in recent years, a trend that accelerated following the...
Government should: (a) Revise laws and policies and stop using practices that cause particular impact among ethnic groups. This includes...
