Keeping out of trouble: Children’s views reported by the Children’s Rights Director for England

For this report, we asked children and young people for their views and experience about what can keep a child or young person from getting into trouble with the law. We asked both children and young people who had been in trouble with the law and those that had not. This report therefore gives the children’s view of what makes the difference for a child.

I am sending this report to the government, to councils and to people making decisions now about looking after children and how to help keep them from getting into trouble with the law. I hope that the children’s views in this report will help them reach the decisions they need to make, for everyone’s sake.