Talk:Children and Young Persons Act 1933

Timeline of changes
This material belongs in an article on the subject child protection generally. This arcticle ought to be primarily concerned with the provisions of the 1933 Act. James500 (talk) 00:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I have now moved this material to this page for the reason given above (relevancy)

==Timeline of Changes ==

1932
Children and Young Persons Act 1932 enacted which gave more powers to juvenile courts and introduced supervision orders for children at risk.

1933
All existing child protection laws consolidated into the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.

1948
Children Act 1948 established a "children's committee" and a "children's officer" in each local authority. This consolidated the parliamentary care of children committee in 1945 (which was enacted in response to the killing of 13-year-old Dennis O'Neill at the fault of his foster parents).

1968
Under the 1968 Social Work (Scotland) Act, Local authorities now took responsibility of welfare, health and investigation of child abuse.

1970
Under the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, councils' social work services and social care provisions were merged into social services departments.

1974
Area child protection committees (ACPCs) in England and Wales developed after a lack of coordination amoungst services prompts the death of Maria Cowell.

1989
The Children Act 1989 gave every child the right to protection from abuse and exploitation and the right to have inspections to safeguard their welfare.

1991
ACPCs required to conduct an investigation whether child protection procedures were followed when child abuse is suspected or confirmed to be the cause of a child's death.

1995
The Children (Scotland) Act incorporated principles determined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scottish law.

1999
The Protection of Children Act 1999 was passed, aiming to prevent pedophiles from working with children. It required childcare organizations in England and Wales to inform the Department of Health about anyone known to them who is suspected of harming children or putting them at risk.

2001
Then Scottish education minister Jack McConnell ordered a review of child protection in Scotland following the inquiry into the murder of three-year-old Kennedy McFarlane. An audit published the following year found that half of all children at risk of abuse and neglect in the country failed to receive adequate protection.

2003
In January, Lord Laming published his report into the death of child abuse victim Victoria Climbié, which found that health, police and social services missed 12 opportunities to save her. Margaret Hodge is appointed the first children's minister in June. In September, a government green paper, Every Child Matters, proposed an electronic tracking system for England's children; 150 children's trusts to be set up by 2006, merging health, education and social services; a children's director to oversee local services; statutory local safeguarding children boards to replace ACPCs; and a children's commissioner for England.

2004
The Children Act 2004, which pushes forward the main proposals of the green paper - electronic children's files; children's directors; and a children's commissioner - is passed by parliament. But it allows local authorities more flexibility in organizing their children's services, with the amalgamation of education and social services no longer mandatory. Councils are also given another two years to set up children's trusts.

2005
Professor Al Aynsley Green is appointed as England's first children's commissioner. Former Home Office minister Beverley Hughes replaces Margaret Hodge as minister for children. Former education secretary Estelle Morris is appointed to oversee the government's reform of the children's services workforce.

Section 39
Section 39 specifically refers to newspaper reports, and was extended by Section 57 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 to sound and television, but the Daily Mail ("Sally Bercow silenced on Twitter! Speaker's wife disappears from cyberspace after latest gaffe", 20 November 2012) mentions a "Section 39 Order under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933" saying "Any publication by whatever media..." Has legislation extended it to all media (if so, which legislation?) or was it an order made under a different Act of Parliament? Peter&#160;James (talk) 13:48, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * It applies to any "publication". What that means is specified by subsections 39(3) and 49(3) for their respective sections, namely publication' includes any speech, writing, relevant programme or other communication in whatever form, which is addressed to the public at large or any section of the public". Since Twitter is a public forum, a tweet by a non-locked account is as such "addressed to the public at large". Hairy Dude (talk) 14:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC)