Increase children and young people’s freedom to play, 2012

Submitted by: Play England The National Council of Women, in Conference assembled, is concerned that: (i) UNICEF and Children’s Society reports continue to show that England is one of the unhappiest places to grow up in compared with other developed countries;...

Poverty and child welfare, 2013

Submitted by: NCW Management Committee NCW in Conference assembled, AWAREof the recent Government Consultation Paper on measures affecting child poverty and citing certain damaging aspects of poverty in childhood, including unmanageable debt, and the effects of poor...

Restrictions of obscene publications, 1961

The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, welcomes the fact that successful prosecutions have been brought under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, but deplores the increasing pornographic emphasis of certain cheap illustrated magazines which are exposed...