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Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2025

Debate

Children’s Rights

Contribution

In line with the UNCRC, we recognise the age of a child in the UK as being under 18 years of age. In that way, children are treated differently from adults. However, we do have an age of criminal responsibility of 10, and we do not intend to change that at this time.

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