All Party Parliamentary Group
NCB clerks the All Party Parliamentary Group
for Children (APPGC), whose members include more than 200 peers and
MPs who want to keep up to date with children and young people's
issues. The group meets approximately once a month.
The APPGC was established in the 1980s.
Throughout its history, the group has played a significant role in
reports on conditions for children in care, the passage of the
Children Acts 1989 and 2004, the introduction of video-links in
child abuse trials, and the campaign for Children’s Rights
Commissioners in the UK (with that work brought to fruition by the
devolved legislatures). It has also overseen work undertaken by NCB
and the Children’s Legal Centre on the development of child impact
assessment.
Parliamentary Year 2009-10
During the 2009-10 Parliamentary Year, the
APPGC will be holding a series of meetings centred around the theme
of youth justice. The group will be having meetings on
prevention and entry, the court system, custody, vulnerable
children, an international perspective on the age of criminal
responsibility and resettlement. Alongside these youth justice
meetings there will be meetings on Bills relevant to children and
young people and occasional ad hoc joint meetings on relevant
issues.
The next APPGC meeting will be:
- Vulnerable Children in the Youth Justice System (Tuesday
29th June)
Latest APPGC minutes:
For earlier meetings, see our archived
meeting minutes.
Officers elected (13 July
2009)
- Chair: Baroness Massey of Darwen (Labour)
- Vice-Chairs: Dari Taylor MP (Labour), Baroness Walmsley (Lib
Dem), Baroness Morris of Bolton (Conservative), Annette Brooke MP
(Lib Dem), Baroness Blood (Labour) and Tim Loughton MP
(Conservative).
- Secretary: Baroness Howarth of Breckland (crossbencher)
- Treasurer: Earl of Listowel (crossbencher)
Contacts
Laura Rodrigues, Policy and Parliamentary Assistant
Tel: 020 7843 6048
Email: lrodrigues@ncb.org.uk