The minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales remains 10 years: something which has attracted criticism globally by policy makers and youth justice practitioners. Yet, the Westminster Government refuses to consider changes to minimum age of criminal responsibility, despite evidence supporting reform. This article, drawing on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's consultation to revise General Comment No. 10 (2007) and the activities of UK devolved administrations, explores the need for minimum age of criminal responsibility reform, considering how a holistic approach focused on diversion and the provision of rights respecting appropriate interventions can create positive, even transformative outcomes for children.

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standard Economics 101 anecdote: Law of the Maximum, adopted in revolutionary France in 1793. The problem was a shortage of bread in Paris. The law set a maximum price that could be charged for bread, with capital punishment for violators. Bakers were guillotined. The result was fewer bakers and less bread.While that is a considerable oversimplification of history, the basic point is valid -politically popular solutions to problems often precisely contradict economic reasoning.In the US today, beginning in March 2020, moratoriums on evictions for nonpayment of rent have been enacted at many levels of government. The moratorium of widest application and longest survival was ordered by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), starting September 4, 2020, and just extended again at this writing (June 26, 2021the extension is promised to be the last one).The rationale for the CDC order rests entirely on one foundational claim, i.e., that evictions increase residential crowding. The crowding leads to higher transmissions of COVID-19, which leads to more illness and death. No empirical evidence or theory is offered for the proposition that evictions increase crowding.

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