All Articles in Children

Existing laws regulating the use of child performers in for instance, advertising, date back to 1968 and have been consistently criticised as over-bureaucratic. Now at last, the Department for Education…

Following publication of the Bailey Report on the commercialisation of childhood in June 2011, the Committee of Advertising Practice, which writes the CAP Code of Advertising administered by the Advertising…

Following the June 2011 Government-commissioned report on the sexualisation of children, the Advertising Standards Authority has published new guidance on sexual imagery in outdoor ads and seven media regulators have…

“Letting children be children” is the title of a report published by the Department for Education on the commercialisation and sexualisation of youngsters. Advertising predictably comes under scrutiny and Judith…

With no statutory definition of a child, advertisers continue to get into difficulty with age restrictions on promotions. The CAP Code currently defines a “child” as “anyone under 16,” but…

With pressure mounting for changes to UK rules for ads to children, Canada’s TV regulators will be applying new guidelines for determining if “Children’s Advertising” or a “Child-directed message” can…