COMMUNITY CARE MAGAZINE'S BACK ON TRACK CAMPAIGN

EDM number 1397 in 2003-04, proposed by Hilton Dawson on 24/06/2004.

That this House expresses concern that the human rights of many of the 2,500 children and young people, as well as 8,500 18 to 21 year olds currently held in custody, are being violated; therefore welcomes Community Care Magazine's Back on Track Campaign and its demands for an immediate end to the practice of remanding children and young people in adult prisons, an end to the degrading and humiliating practice of strip searching and the inappropriate use of control and restraint, an increase in the provision of services for children and young people who need treatment for mental health problems on substance abuse; and supports Community Care's calls for the Government to ensure that resources allocated to provide access to social workers in young offenders institutions are being properly administered and to ensure that no young people assessed 'as vulnerable' are sent to young offenders institutions and are instead placed in secure training centres or local authority secure children's homes, or, if places are unavailable that their sentences be deferred.

This motion has been signed by a total of 68 MPs.