Pressure Group Campaign

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    • Pressure group
      An organisation that campaigns to influence public policy and decision-making
    • British Lung Foundation (BLF)

      • Aims to prevent lung disease by campaigning for positive change in the UK's lung health
      • Raises awareness about lung disease, the dangers that cause it, and how to look after your lungs
    • BLF's campaign on smoking in cars with children
      1. Secured 50,000 signatures on a petition in 2011 and presented it to 10 Downing Street
      2. Produced research about the effects of second-hand smoke and the lasting damage it can do
      3. Showed that more than 430,000 children were exposed to second-hand smoke in family cars each week
      4. As a result, a ban on smoking in cars with children came into force in England and Wales in October 2014 through the Children and Families Act 2014
    • BLF and other pressure groups (e.g. ASH)
      • Campaigned for plain packaging of cigarettes
      • Research showed that one of the reasons young people started to smoke was the attraction of the colourful, cleverly designed packaging
      • Changes introduced through the Children and Families Act 2014
    • The Howard League for Penal Reform
      • Campaigns for change in the criminal justice system
      • Aims for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison
      • Has campaigned for over 150 years and has had many successes
    • The Howard League's "UR Boss" campaign
      1. Aimed to improve young people's experiences in the criminal justice system, both in custody and the community, by involving them in campaigning for change
      2. Resulted in ending the routine use of strip searching on arrival at a Youth Offenders Institution
      3. Extended the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's remit to young people detained in Secure Training Centres, giving them an independent external complaints system
      4. Closed all Young Offenders Institution units for girls, with girls now only held in secure units or residential care in cities such as Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester
      5. Changed remand legislation so that 17-year-olds are now treated as children
    • Young Offenders Institution

      A type of prison for 18-to 20-year-olds
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