The timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom includes a variety of events that are both political and grassroots in nature.
[41] By 1923 Neill had moved to the town of Lyme Regis in the south of England, to a house called Summerhill where he began with 5 pupils.
UNESCO was also established with Julian Huxley as the first Director General, standing at the centre of the post-World War II revival of education.
Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and one of the liberal intellectual elite of the time who believed in birth control and 'voluntary' sterilization for the "virtual elimination of the few lowest and most degenerate types".
[60] Detention Centres, under the Prison Department of the Home Office, were later introduced for miscreants, designed to administer a "short sharp shock" to older teenagers through drilling, physical jerks, military-style discipline, and cold showers before dawn.
The exaggerated moral panic among politicians and the older generation was typically belied by the growth in intergenerational cooperation between parents and children.
[63] The media distortions of the teens as too affluent, and as promiscuous, delinquent, counter-cultural rebels do not reflect the actual experiences of ordinary young adults, particularly young women,[64] Despite a previous "deep lack of understanding" of incidents of abuse in children's homes run by Islington, Margaret Hodge is appointed Children's Minister in June 2003.
Rights are needed for children with autism regarding training and educating using visual methodology, proper diagnosis and treatment etc.