For the Children's Legal Centre see:
www.childrenslegalcentre.com

The Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) is a coalition of nearly 200 organisations. In November 2004 it issued a report which criticised the Government's failure to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Key areas of concern in the report related to children and young people in custody:
www.crae.org.uk

For information on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child see:
www.unicef.org/crc/index_30160.html and www.unicef.org.uk/youthvoice/pdfs/uncrc.pdf

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child:
www.unicef.org.uk/pages.asp?page=96&nodeid=crccrc&section

For the UK Government Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child:
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/resources-and-practice/IG00249/

Prison Reform Trust press statement re: HM Chief Inspector’s report on an announced inspection of HMYOI Stoke Heath:
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/news-prStokeHeathInspection.html

The Youth Justice Board website gives information about the youth justice system with links to specific information about the courts, court orders and custody:
www.yjb.gov.uk

For the National Specification for Substance Misuse for Juveniles in Custody (2004) see
www.yjb.gov.uk/Publications/Resources/Downloads/Nat%20Spec%20Substance%20Misuse%20Juveniles%20in%20Custody.pdf
This discusses the expectations of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in relating to substance misuse interventions for young people on a Detention Training Order. The YJB site also gives links to other documents concerned with young offenders and substance misuse.

Extension of specialist youth courts in Scotland: for the situation in 2006 see: www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/11/24101019, for a news update see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7193761.stm

For SGC Consultation Guideline - Overarching Principles – Sentencing Youths (pdf) see:
www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/consultation_guidelines_overarching_principless_sentencing_youths.pdf