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“Don’t children deserve better than that?”
Sue BerelowitzDeputy Children’s Commissioner for England
andCarlene Firmin
Senior Policy Officer, ROTA
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Children’s Commissioner (CA 2004) has a duty to:• promote awareness of the views and interests of children
• consider or research any matter relating to children
• encourage people who work with children to gather their views and to take account of them
• focus on the five Every Child Matters outcomes
• focus on the most vulnerable children
• have regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
Unique powers• to enter any premises where a child or young person is cared for except
their private home• to speak to any child in private as long as the child agrees
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UNCRC• Article 3: best interests • Article 12: respect for views of the child• Article 16: right to privacy• Article 19: protection from violence• Article 24: health and health services• Article 34: protection from sexual abuse &
exploitation• Article 35: abduction• Article 36: protection from all other forms of
exploitation
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At risk of Sexual Violence in SYVFemale Relatives
Threat, Reprisal, Antagonise
Female Offenders Punishment Dominance Property
Girlfriends and Sexual
PartnersPunishment,
LureReprisal
Exploitation
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Distinctions and Clarifications• Multiple Perpetrator Rape• Gang-associated sexual violence• Sexual Violence as SYV• Sexual exploitation in a criminal gang context• Sexual exploitation outside of a criminal gang
context• Misuse of ‘gang-rape’
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Sexual Violence, VAWG and SYV• Serious Youth Violence defined as murder,
attempted murder, GBH and weapon use where victim and offender are both under the age of 21
• Why is sexual violence not included in this?• Violence against Women rarely considers
sexual violence where both the offender and the victim are under the age of 18 – this is not the same as ‘child abuse’
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“To make life better for children, they should listen to our point of view more. It is after
all our life.” (Girl, 12 years)
www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk