Who goes there? Campaigners fight to keep military away from UK schools
The Guardian
Britain is the only EU country to enlist 16-year-olds into the armed services and, say objectors, it starts with access to the classroom.
Concern over activities for school children at Farnborough arms fair
ForcesWatch press release
Armed Forces Day: ‘It is peace we must strive for, not increasing militarisation’
ForcesWatch Comment
£2m ‘character education’ grant goes to military-style projects
Schools Week
Where did Osborne’s £50m school cadet forces grant go?
Schools Week
Government must take urgent action over Deepcut recommendations
ForcesWatch press release
MoD increases targeting of 16-year-olds show figures released today
Child Soldiers International
Making the link with child development
ForcesWatch Comment
Children’s rights groups call on MoD to stop recruiting children
Child Soldiers International
An open letter to the Ministry of Defence from national children’s organisations and rights groups calls on them to stop recruiting 16 and 17 year olds into the armed forces. The letter has been made public on the same day that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child begins its periodic examination of the UK’s record on child rights. In 2008, the UN urged the UK to raise the enlistment age to 18.
The UN, child rights and the UK military
ForcesWatch comment