Do you want to build a career working with children? Are you interested in working in early years childcare, education or playwork? This booklet describes how you can find the right qualification to support your chosen career path and complements the booklet ‘Work with Children’ which describes some of the career opportunities now available.

- Sure Start - 1-84478-304-9

Strategy paper 2007

- London Borough Bromley -

Text of the UK Act, which imposes duties on local authorities regarding welfare of children, and outlines registration requirements for childcare providers, both compulsory and voluntary

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

"Children’s Play programme outcomes Getting Serious About Play defines children’s play as “what children and young people do when they follow their own ideas, in their own way and for their own reasons”. The Big Lottery have listed the following outcomes as vital to the delivery of the play fund portfolio. Although this strategy is not entirely based around this, the outcomes assist in the ‘scene setting’ for our action plan."

- Rochford District Council -

This report gives feedback to children and young people about a review of children’s play. The review looked at how best to spend £200 million from the National Lottery on improving children’s play opportunities. (The report says that the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) will manage how the money is spent. Since the review took place, the Government has decided to replace NOF with a new body). The money was pledged in June 2001. The review took place between October 2002 and April 2003. It was UK-wide and covered children and young people aged 0 – 16 so the review looked at older young people as well as younger children, even though they may not use the word ‘play’ to describe things they might want to do. Frank Dobson MP led the review. His full report was published on 21 January 2004 and it makes recommendations to Government about how Lottery money on play should be spent.

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This consultation document seeks to promote discussion about how we could all build a society with more and better opportunities for all children to play.

- DCMS/Dept SCF - 978-1-84775-139-3

Children need to take risks when they play.

Robin Sutcliffe Tim Gill - Play Safety Forum, UK -

This paper should be read in conjunction with the ‘A Personal List Of Events And Evolving Understanding That Have Led Playwork To Where It Is Today’ and ‘The playwork matrix’

- Mick Conway, Bob Hughes, Gordon Sturrock, March 2004 -

Play enhances every aspect of children’s development and learning. It is children’s window to the world. Play is so important that its significance in children’s lives is recognized by the United Nations as a specific right in addition to, and distinct from, a child’s right to recreation and leisure. However, children’s children’s opportunities for play and their access to play environments is changing.

- Canadian Council on Learning -

This is a final report for the Early Years and Childcare Service of The City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council reporting on The Impact of Open Access Play Provision in the Bradford District. THE PROJECT BRIEF. The aims and objectives of the project brief were to: • Research and evidence the impact of open access play provision offered by the Play team at Bradford Early Years and Childcare Service. • Use the evidence to provide outcomes for children, young people and their families as a result of accessing open access play provision as based on those identified within the Every Child Matters agenda. • Identify the impact that open access play provision has on communities where the provision is based. • Provide evidence which can contribute to raising the profile of open access play provision as an effective service for children. • Use the evidence drawn from the research and evaluation to justify open access play provision as part of the children’s service agenda.

Brian Cheeseman - Bradford MDC Early Years & Childcare Service -

In December 2007, the Government announced a �225 million investment (subsequently increased to �235 million) to support local authorities in improving play spaces for young people aged 8-13 years old. The investment will result in 3,500 new or improved play spaces, and 30 new adventure playgrounds in disadvantaged areas being delivered between 2008 and 2011. Academics from the Institute of Education and Roehampton University were appointed by the evaluation team to review the literature on play, identifying the benefits of play and how these can most appropriately be measured and evaluated.

Dr Sue Rogers and Dr Caroline Pelletier (Institute of Education, University of London) Alison Clark (Roehampton University) - -

Children’s pretend play is a complex phenomenon. Pretend play involves a myriad of processes and behaviors that change from moment to moment. Does pretend play have important functions in child development, or is it simply something children engage in to pass the time—albeit while having fun? This is a central question in the field of child psychology today. It is an especially important question for child therapists.

Sandra W Russ - LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, - ISBN 0-8058-3065-0

Play Policy in the Children’s Plan A summary

- Play England -

Summary of the key issues relating to Play in the UK Government's Childrens Plan

- Play England -

� IKEA has undertaken a major research-driven project to investigate the subjects of children�s development and play. � Survey fieldwork was carried out online in 25 countries by Research Now, London. Family Kids and Youth partnered with IKEA to design the questionnaire, analyse the results and provide an overview of child development and background to the importance of play.

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Results of survey carried out in several countries by IKEA examining attitudes to children's play. A unique undertaking. Crucial reading for all who work with children in formal and informal settings.

Family Kids and Youth - IKEA -

Stats for English Playing Fields, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001

- Sports England -

The 12-month evaluation study aimed to explore play-focused and layworkspecific processes for evaluating the impact of playwork on the play and behaviour of children attending two play projects in the City of Nottingham. Drawing on a range of theories of children�s play, specifically theories relating to power and identity (Sutton-Smith, 1997; Sturrock and Else, 1998; Winnicott, 1971) and emotional health (Sutton-Smith, 2003), the study explored the relationship between playing and behaviour and the role of the playworker.

Wendy Russell, - Nottingham City Council -

The Council's Vision for Children's Play within its area.

- Rochford District Council -

The following checklist highlights design and management features which need to be included in the planning of play areas and in their design and construction which will help reduce opportunity for their use in crime and anti-social behaviour.

- Secured by Design -

The purpose of this guide is to examine the reasons why play spaces can limit access to some children and identify how improvements can be made to increase participation by all children in play.

- Sport and Recreation Victoria, Australia -

The Good Play Space Guide is about play and its benefits for everyone. Many children and adults who have a disability are not able to use public play spaces for a variety of reasons. The purpose of this guide is to examine the reasons why play spaces can limit access to some children and identify how improvements can be made to increase participation by all children in play.

- Victoria State Government, Australia -

A resource which will assist in understanding accessibility in play spaces, and guide the planning, design, construction, maintenance and management of play spaces. It will be a valuable resource for all organisations committed to inclusive sport and recreation environments for people of all abilities.

- Victoria State Government, Australia - 1-39781921331-00-8

This report offers guidelines on how pediatricians can advocate for children by helping families, school systems, and communities consider how best to ensure that play is protected as they seek the balance in children’s lives to create the optimal developmental milieu.

- American Acadamy of Paediatrics -

A Report examining the impact of lack of play opportunities in the lives of children allied to dietary, exercise and other factors.

- SPI Play -

UK Government publication about encouraging opportunities for Play

- Department for Culture Media and Sport -

The focus of this document is on Government action to encourage the promotion of greater play opportunities for children and young people. It concentrates on the importance of play, as well as some of the key issues relating to it. August 2006

- Dept Media Culture Sport -

Play Strategy of Waveney District Council August 2008

- Waveney DC -

The UK Government Report to the UN Committee monitoring implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

- UK Govt -

This guidance booklet has been produced by the Home Office’s Anti-Social Behaviour and Alcohol Unit, in response to demand from practitioners for an accessible guide to current practice in this field. It has been drawn up with the help and advice of a range of partner agencies, including the police and local authorities. It reflects what is actually being done with ABCs/ABAs, by agencies that have found this intervention an effective part of the toolkit for tackling anti-social behaviour.

- The Home Office, August 2007 -

The Complaint lodged with the United States District Court, CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, by INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FUND alleging conditions of slavery amongst child workers.The lawsuit was filed by the Washington, D.C.-based International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of children who were trafficked from Mali into the Ivory Coast and forced to work 12- to 14-hour days, according to the fund's news release. The children allegedly received no pay, little food or sleep and frequent beatings.

- INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FUND -

Notes re the 2003 Act

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

This UK Act allows the police to designate an area, and having done so to allow a police officer to remove anyone s/he "reasonably" believes to be under 16 to their homes if they are out after 9pm. Widely condemned by children's rights groups, yet several hundred such areas declared by UK local authorities.

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

The full text of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Examination of the state of Children's Rights in the UK in 2008

UN Committee Rights of the Child - United Nations -

Report on use of women and child labour in flower-growing industry

- International Labor Rights Forum -

The Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children (A/61/299) reveals the widespread and intolerable use of violence against children worldwide. The study found that violence affects both girls and boys of all ages, all social contexts, and all nationalities. The short and long-term repercussions of this violence are devastating—including injuries, disabilities, life-long emotional and psychological effects, sometimes death, as well as significant economic and other costs to society. The Study presents a comprehensive set of recommendations detailing necessary steps to prevent and respond to violence against children.

- CRIN and others -

The global economic crisis and its aftermath mean the world faces the prospect of a prolonged increase in unemployment, deepening poverty and inequality. Among those that stand to be most affected are the children of the world�s poor and vulnerable families. Increasing unemployment and poverty threaten to jepoardise children�s education, health and welfare. The result could be to halt, or even to reverse, the recent global progress in reducing child labour and increasing childrens� access to education.

- IPEC -

Human trafficking in the form of forced prostitution and labor has long existed in Iraq, as has forced marriage and domestic servitude within the family, tribe and community. Since the 2003 invasion and subsequent civil war, Iraq has increasingly been a source of trafficking victims who are transported to neighboring countries, as well as a destination for foreign workers who are at risk of trafficking and come to Iraq from the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh and other countries where poverty is widespread. Furthermore, internal conflict and breakdown in law and order has resulted in a rise in kidnapping and trafficking from one location to another within Iraq.

- prepared by Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights -

No Fear joins the increasingly vigorous debate about the role and nature of childhood in the UK. Over the past 30 years activities that previous generations of children enjoyed without a second thought have been relabelled as troubling or dangerous, and the adults who permit them branded as irresponsible. No Fear argues that childhood is being undermined by the growth of risk aversion and its intrusion into every aspect of children’s lives. This restricts children’s play, limits their freedom of movement, corrodes their relationships with adults and constrains their exploration of physical, social and virtual worlds.

Tim Gill - Gulbenkian -

This report, based on the in-depth study of Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General, provides a global picture of violence against children and proposes recommendations to prevent and respond to this issue. It provides information on the incidence of various types of violence against children within the family, schools, alternative care institutions and detention facilities, places where children work and communities.

Independent Expert, The - United Nations - A/61/299

This is the second Report on the trial of the extension of the use of TASER to specially trained units from 1st September 2007.

- Home Office UK -

Concern for street children in the UK has been low, principally because not many are seen: the last rough sleeper count found only two under-18 year olds sleeping rough. However young people who run away often choose to sleep in dangerous places, and the number of runaways is increasing, leading to growing concern about street children in Britain.

Charlie Bretherton - SSSK -

Child labor on sugarcane plantations in the Philippines

- Terre des Hommes Netherlands, 2005 -

"The Child Labor Product List takes the important step of creating a platform from which consumers and other market actors can fully participate, through advocacy or simply through their daily purchasing decisions, in informing companies and policy-makers of their desires over how to help meaningfully change the lives of child laborers for the better by promoting sustainable solutions for economic development through their own economic decisions."

- US Department of Labor -

People around the world share a love of chocolate, one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However, thousands of Africa’s children are forced to labor in the production of cocoa, chocolate’s primary ingredient. The West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is the leading supplier of cocoa, accounting for more than 40% of global production. Low cocoa prices and lower labor costs drive farmers to employ children as a means to survive.

- International Labor Rights Forum -

English Version: Basic facts and figures about the blockade

- AIDS -

Arabic Version - Facts and figures about the Gaza Blockade

- AIDA -

NGO alternative report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child – ENGLAND

- Children’s Rights Alliance for England -

The seminal international Convention on Children's Rights signed up to by the vast majority of nations.

- UNICEF -

Notes for the 2006 Act

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

This UK Act imposes certain obligations upon local authorities re children's well-being and establishes new voluntary and compulsory registration requirements on childcare providers

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

This is the seventh annual childcare costs survey conducted by Daycare Trust, the National Childcare Campaign. This year’s survey shows that childcare costs continue to rise in England and Wales while costs in Scotland have slightly fallen. Parents also continue to report a lack of affordable childcare in their area.

- DayCare Trust -

Use of childcare varies greatly between parents of disabled children, and the type and level of the child’s disability may be a factor affecting their use.

- DayCare Trust -

Use of childcare varies greatly between parents of disabled children, and the type and level of the child’s disability may be a factor affecting their use. Some parents of children with severe and complex additional needs who we spoke to used very little or no formal childcare, instead becoming full time carers themselves and/or relying on Direct Payments to employ care workers in the home. Use of childcare was also low among parents of autistic children we spoke to who felt that childcare settings are generally not appropriate for their children whose needs are distinct from those of other disabled children. Many felt that childcare opportunities are not equal among parents, with some having access to places that other parents have not.

- Daycare Trust -

Ofsted will be using two new childcare provider registers from September 2008. This document introduces them, explains the new arrangements for registration and highlights exemptions to registration. Age group:

- Ofsted -

The Government’s National Childcare Strategy, launched in May 1998, presented an opportunity for more children and parents to access quality, affordable childcare services in the UK than ever before. Now, three years on, childcare is high up the political agenda but British parents continue to pick up most of the childcare bill despite the substantial sums of Government money being spent on childcare. The availability and cost of formal childcare have grown in importance in recent decades as increasing numbers of mothers return to paid employment rather than undertake full time care of their children. In 2001, almost 58% of mothers with children under five are in work2. A recent MORI survey found that 75% of parents say that working parents do not have enough childcare and two thirds believe that more affordable childcare is essential to help mothers return to work3.

- Daycare Trust -

This paper argues we need now to review a number of critical issues, for example about - the age range of early childhood, staffing, funding, entitlement, types of provision and providers, the balance between prescription and diversity, our image of the child. It also argues that being a member of a European community, with so many partners, provides a resource to assist with addressing these issues and to help us to think about and decide our future direction.

Peter Moss - Daycare Trust -

Notes to the 2004 UK Act

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

"An Act to make provision for the establishment of a Children’s Commissioner; to make provision about services provided to and for children and young people by local authorities and other persons; to make provision in relation to Wales about advisory and support services relating to family proceedings; to make provision about private fostering, child minding and day care, adoption review panels, the defence of reasonable punishment, the making of grants as respects children and families, child safety orders, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, the publication of material relating to children involved in certain legal proceedings and the disclosure by the Inland Revenue of information relating to children." Far-ranging Act re services for children in the UK.

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

A statistical survey of children's lives and situations 2002

- Office National Statistics -

"Each authority in England shall, in accordance with these Regulations, prepare and publish a plan (referred to in these Regulations as a children and young people’s plan) setting out the authority’s strategy for discharging their functions in relation to children and relevant young persons."

- HM Stationery Office -

Evaluation of the Children Fund's work in England and Wales by Ofsted, The Audit Commission and the Social Services Inspectorate. 2003

- HMSO -

"The Children’s Plan sets out our plans for the next ten years under each of the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ strategic objectives, with a chapter at the end looking at how we will make these reforms happen."

- Department for Children Schools and Families -

The full publication of the UK Government's Plan for Children,published 2007

- Department for Children, Schools and Familes - Cm 7280

A survey of small voluntary and community sector organisations working with children, young people and families

Jordan Thompson - National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations -

Evidence on the impact of physical activity and its relationship to health A report from the Chief Medical Officer, UK. April 2004

- Department of Health -

Children are becoming fatter which has serious implications for their health. One reason is their decreasing levels of physical activity. This is related to their lifestyles and reductions in the amount of walking. This note illustrates these effects and draws conclusions about children’s physical activity and car use.

Professor Roger Mackett - CENTRE FOR TRANSPORT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON -

The report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of physical education in a small sample of primary and secondary schools between 2005 and 2008 and reports on the impact of the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links strategy. Part A focuses on physical education, and identifies good practice in achievement, provision and leadership. Part B discusses what needs to be tackled by providers of physical education as we move towards 2012 and beyond.

- Ofsted, UK -

Research with the general public for the Criminal Records Bureau. This report presents the findings of a survey among members of the general public. The research was conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the CRB (Criminal Records Bureau). The objectives of the research were to gauge awareness of the CRB, attitudes towards the CRB’s role and effectiveness and – in particular – perceptions of the impact of CRB checks on crime, the fear of crime and job applicants. A similar study was conducted by Ipsos MORI for the CRB in 2005. This report both analyses the findings from 2008, and tracks any changes in public awareness and perceptions of the CRB over time May-June 2008

- Ipsos MORI -

A Congressional Inquiry was held March 13, 2004 in San Bernardino, California to hear testimony and receive evidence of what many parents, grandparents, and advocacy organizations describe as “a festering cauldron of fraud, corruption, abuse of power and exploitation of children.”

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Initial Steps being undertaken by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to set up the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) starting October 2009 in the UK

- ISA -

What IS a volunteer as defined by the CRB when people are applying for checks? This document helps guide through a complicated area!

- Cabinet Office -

We have no idea of the number of people who offend on the Internet. We can examine conviction rates, but these reflect only the countries where possession and distribution of child pornography is both illegal and where there are either the resources or inclination to act upon detection.

Ed. Ethel Quayle and Matthieu Latapy - -

1. The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (SVG) Act, which gained Royal Assent in November 2006, was introduced specifically in response to recommendation 19 of the 2004 Bichard Inquiry report. The Act provides the legal framework for the new Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) scheme. Provisions in the Act which do not extend to Northern Ireland were replicated in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007, made on 2 May 2007. 7. This response sets out the results of the consultation and is structured around the questions posed in the document. It highlights key messages raised in responses, and indicates our approach in reply to some of the issues raised. This paper does not attempt to respond to every single point made in consultation responses, but it does address the main themes.

- Home Office -

Workshop presented 20th October 2006 at the 17th Annual Texas Statewide Annual Conference, Austin

Wayne D. Duehn, PhD - The Author -

Play England responds to the Consultation by the UK Government concerning Child Protection

- Play England -

Steps being taken towards the new scheme and issues for those using it.

- Independent Safeguarding Authority -

The regulation of childcare and related activities coming into force in the UK in September 2008

- Ofsted -

Consultation undertaken by ISA with stakeholders on issues relating to the setting up of the Vetting and Barring Scheme in the UK

- Independent Safeguarding Authority -

This factsheet explains the background to the Act and some of the details within the Act. You can read the full Act and its Explanatory Notes in this Library or on the Office of Public Sector Information website at www.opsi.gov.uk

- Independent Safeguarding Authority -

Notes published by HMSO

- Her Majesty’s Stationery OYce -

The text of the UK Act, which set up the Independent Safeguarding Authority, which establishes 2 lists of people barred from working with (1) Children (2) Vulnerable Adults

- Her Majesty’s Stationery OYce -

Following investigation of allegations of sexual assault RM was arrested on 26 February 2008 and charged with offences relating to two youths. The following day the investigation was declared a major incident (Operation Presley) and offences against eight boys and youths were uncovered. 1.2 RM was charged with 28 offences. He pleaded guilty to a specimen number including attempted rape and other sexual assaults. RM was sentenced on 20 September 2008 at Teesside Crown Court to an indefinite term for public protection in prison, with the stipulation that he serve a minimum of seven years before he may apply for parole.

Jack Blackmore - SOUTH TEES LOCAL SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN’S BOARD -

Notes re the 2003 UK Act

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

"An Act to make new provision about sexual offences, their prevention and the protection of children from harm from other sexual acts, and for connected purposes." Widening and clarifying the law.

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

Following the death of Brandon Muir, those charged with leading and managing child protection services in Dundee commissioned two separate reviews. A significant case review was commissioned in line with national guidance to examine the particular circumstances surrounding the child protection issues, and the role of the various authorities involved. Separately, an independent review was commissioned by the Chief Officers Group to ensure validation of the Significant Case Review, but also to address wider issues which may emerge, not necessarily related to the death of Brandon.

Jimmy Hawthorn, Peter Wilson - Dundee CYPPC -

Keeping children and young people safe is a top priority. It is the responsibility of us all. That is why this consultation document seeks to promote discussion about how we could all do that better. Its purpose is to set out how we can work together to help children and young people stay safe, and make the most of their talents and new opportunities to fulfil their potential.

- Department for Children, Schools and Families - 978-1-84478-974-0

Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa Incorporated (ACYA) is a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, families and individuals whose purpose is to promote the well-being of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

- ACYA -

West Texas State School is a secure facility for young men. This publication documents allegations of abuse involving senior staff. Texas Youth Commission is the official body running such facilities.

- Texas Youth Commission -

A Public Inquiry Report on child protection procedures in Humberside Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary, particularly the effectiveness of relevant intelligence-based record keeping, vetting practices since 1995 and information sharing with other agencies. This report makes recommendations on matters of local and national relevance.

Sir Richard Bichard - London: The Stationery Office -

The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA” or “the Act”), which is title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-248), provides a new comprehensive set of minimum standards for sex offender registration and notification in the United States. These Guidelines are issued to provide guidance and assistance to covered jurisdictions—the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and Indian tribal governments—in implementing the SORNA standards in their registration and notification programs.

- US Department of Justice - June 2008

The Government’s response to Lord Laming. Ministers announced to Parliament on 12 November 2008 that they had asked Lord Laming to prepare an independent report of progress being made nationally in the delivery of arrangements to protect children, and to identify any barriers to effective, consistent implementation and how these might be overcome. On 12 March 2009, Lord Laming’s report, The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report was published.

- Department for Children Schools and Families UK -

The VBS was established as a result of the Bichard Enquiry, which followed the Soham Murders, that recommended that all those who work with vulnerable groups should be registered

- Home Office UK -

A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

- HMSO UK -

This report describes the findings of the 2003 Young People’s Social Attitudes survey, a survey of 12 to 19 year olds. The interviews were carried out in connection with the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, an annual survey of adults aged 18 and over. Research Report No 564

Alison Park, Miranda Phillips and Mark Johnson - Department for Education and Skills -

A report into young people’s participation in sport

- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister UK -

Using Sports and leisure activities to prevent anti-social behaviour by young people

- The Audit Commission, UK -

Memorandum dated 12th March 2009 from Howard E. Williams, Chief of Police, City of San Marcos, CA, to Rick Menchaca, City Manager, raising point that current juvenile curfew ordinance had expired and the Council needed to consider whether or not to replace it.

Howard E Williams - City of San Marcos, CA -

Thisreportmakesthecaseforamoretherapeuticandfamily-basedapproachtoyouthoffending,as opposedtothepresent,morepunitive,system.Theargumentsfortheproposedapproachappear persuasive–notonlyonhumanitariangrounds,butalsointermsofeconomicsandefficacy.

Julia Margo - Institute for Public Policy Research -

This report makes the case for a more therapeutic and family-based approach to youth offending, as opposed to the present, more punitive, system. The arguments for the proposed approach appear persuasive – not only on humanitarian grounds, but also in terms of economics and efficacy.

Julia Margo - IPPR -

An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and the Charity Tribunal; to make other amendments of the law about charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other institutions; to make other provision about the funding of such institutions; and for connected purposes.

- HMSO UK -

Notes to the 2006 UK Act

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

The UK 2006 Act regulating Charities

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -

This first installment acts as a general overview of the whole subject and introduces the reader to the 7 keys to success. Future installments will then look at each of these 7 aspects in much greater detail, illustrated throughout with case history material and working documents from many different campaigns.

Chris Stoddard, LLB - DRF Group LTD. -

The Charity Commission commissioned Opinion Leader because it sought a better understanding of what the public understands and expects on issues related to public benefit. In particular, the Charity Commission wished to ascertain where, and how big, the gaps are between what the public understands about the benefit that charities provide, what public benefit they would expect to see charities providing, and what case law will currently support.

Opinion Leader - The Charity Commission -

Text of the UK legislation updating charity law with important new duties for trustees etc

- HMSO -

Our vision is of a society in which we will be united by our common concern for the well being of others; a society in which we enrich our own lives by enriching the lives of others through the giving of time. This may be through offering services to individuals,or it may be through working for a better society in other ways.

- The Commission on the Future of Volunteering, 2008 - 978-1-906111-03-8

This publication is intended as a commonsense guide for trustees and others regarding their responsibilities under the duty to forsee and manage risks that their charity may face.

Chris Stoddard, LLB - DRF Group LTD. -

DRF Group Ltd. has prepared this basic guide to the main provisions of the new Data Protection Act (referred to as “the Act” in this booklet) as it affects fundraising. Most of it came into force on October 23rd 2001

Chris Stoddard, LLB - DRF Group LTD. -

A Demand for Fundamental Changes at the Bridgestone/Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia

- Save My Future Foundation, June 2008 -

All-party groups are unofficial, and have a membership of backbench Members of the House of Commons, or of both Houses. They are classified either as subject groups (relating to a particular topic eg. forestry) or country groups (relating to a particular country or region). The groups tend on the whole to cover subjects which are not generally contentious in party terms. These groups flourish and wane according to the interests and enthusiasm of Members and with the topicality of various subjects. They reflect the interests of the day and therefore may change frequently. Over the years since 1945, it has been argued, less and less influence has been exerted by backbench Members in the formulation of government policy, and there has been insufficient consultation between backbenchers and Ministers. All-party groups can sometimes serve as a counterbalance to this. They have a liaison function and can, when necessary, exert pressure on a Minister to modify policy or influence legislation and further action in particular areas. They thus play a part in the flexible pattern of consultation that Governments nowadays employ in order to sound out views both inside and outside Parliament.

- House of Commons Information Office -

- Bognor Fun Bus -

- Bognor Fun Bus -

"An Act to make provision for the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the National Crime Squad; to make provision about entry on and interference with property and with wireless telegraphy in the course of the prevention or detection of serious crime; to make provision for the Police Information Technology Organisation; to provide for the issue of certificates about criminal records; to make provision about the administration and organisation of the police: to repeal certain enactments about rehabilitation of offenders; and for connected purposes." This major legislation set-up a National database of criminal records, and also established the Criminal Records Bureau in the wake of the Cullen Report into the Dunblane Massacre tragedy.

- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office -