Just for Kids Law

Just for Kids is officially an adult! Founded 18 years ago by lawyers Aika Stephenson & @ShauneenLambe, we provide young people in criminal courts the kind of unwavering, compassionate support we'd want for our own children. justforkidslaw.org

📊 Black people are 7× more likely to be stopped and searched and 5× more likely to face police force. Confidence in policing is just 64% for Black communities. Report: college.police.uk/support-forces…

Children at protests deserve safety, not surveillance. Peers in Parliament warn live facial recognition could capture kids’ biometric data without proper safeguards. Every young person’s voice matters - their face isn’t a data point. 💛 #YouthVoice #PrivacyMatters #ChildRights

📱🛡️ The Commons has rejected an under‑16 social media ban, shifting focus to limiting harmful features and strengthening age checks. At Just for Kids Law, we support young people to understand their rights and push for safer online spaces. #OnlineSafety #ChildRightsMatter

👉 A new inspection finds exploited children in NI are still being treated as suspects instead of victims. Failures include poor recording, missed safeguarding opportunities & lack of training. No child should be criminalised for their own exploitation. #ChildProtection #CCE

Thank you! We're just ££ away from £60,000 target, making a huge difference to children & young people. When you donate £1 or £1000, each donation is matched until midday Tuesday 9th December. Make double the difference today f.mtr.cool/pbnmmzodlq #ChristmasChallenge2025

We have 12 hours left of this years #ChristmasChallenge2025. Hope is something none of us can live without and your support ensures young people can turn hope into action. Your donation will be matched, making double the impact f.mtr.cool/waqilwmbyi

The #ChristmasChallenge2025 is live. For one week only, every £ you donate to Just for Kids Law will be matched, your Donation is Doubled. Double Donation today and together we can ensure children's voices are heard and their rights respected. Thank you f.mtr.cool/pwynueuedx

Following last week's BBC Panorama programme, exposing failures of the Met to change, we've signed a joint statement calling for the end to: "The cycle of scandal, reviews, broken promises of reform, and failure to change..." Read more: bit.ly/4mP9F9S

2/2 Find out more and read our joint press release with @CPAGUK @savechildrenuk @CRAE_official @CfYoungLives: bit.ly/470nKNc

1/2 As public hearings for the children's module of the Covid Inquiry get underway today, we're calling for it to scrutinise why children were so invisible in UK Government decision-making and the reasons behind the failure to adequately consider their rights.

🧒📢Over 120 charities have come together to back two vital amendments being debated today in the House of Lords. They put #ChildRights at the heart of Government ensuring children are no longer an afterthought in policy making. 📄Read our press release: bit.ly/4nBIoZq

🧒 Children’s rights have been ignored in too many Government decisions — with real consequences. Tomorrow, Peers will debate two vital #childrights amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We’re proud to lead a coalition of 120+ orgs supporting our calls.

📣 Tomorrow, Peers will debate two vital #ChildRights amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill. We’ve seen the cost of overlooking children’s rights — from Covid-19 to welfare policy. 📄 Read more: bit.ly/3VIROGF

4/The ‘Maturity Matrix’ is a promising tool to track how well forces are embedding anti-racism. We’ve pushed for a child rights lens to be fully integrated. It must lead to real, tangible change in police interactions with Black children.

1/ We’re pleased to play a leading role in civil society scrutiny of the Police Race Action Plan and to have contributed insights from our work with racialised children to @PoliceISOB’s new report. 👇

📢 New APPG reports reveal rights violations in police custody — from traumatic strip-searches to excessive detention. They centre children's voices and call for urgent reform. Read more 👇 bit.ly/40a1ahv bit.ly/3TyQgOu

🆕Great to see this new report on how we can progress better respect for #childrights across the UK. #RightsChild2024