1940 - 1999
Category: Other
Updated: 3 Dec 2021
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Created byLucy-May Galbraith
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Events
Children & Young Persons
(Harmful Publications) Act 1955
06/05/1955Trinidad & Tobago gain Independence
31/08/1962Trinidad & Tobago self-govern
for the first time 31/08/1962Eric Williams [People's National
Movement] becomes Prime Minister
31/08/1962 - 29/03/1981Muslim Marriage and
Divorce Act 1964
01/12/1964Education Act 1966
27/08/1966Law Reform Act 1969Black Power protests over
political interference
February - April 1970Age of Majority Act 1973
15/11/1973Trinidad & Tobago
become a Republic
01/08/1976Constitution of the Republic '
of Trinidad & Tobago
01/08/1976Death of Eric Williams
29/03/1981Status of Children Act 1983
01/03/1983Emancipation Day is made
a national holiday
01/08/1985Sexual Offences Act 1986
11/01/1986National Family Services
Division formed
21/03/1991Ratification of the United
Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child
05/12/1991Death of Akiel Chambers
[11-years-old]
23/05/1998Domestic Violence Act 1999Death of Dennis O'Neill
[12-years-old]
09/01/1945Curtis Committee Report
into the Death of Dennis
O'Neill
28/05/1945The first of the
Windrush Generation
arrive on English
shores 22/06/1948Children Act 1948
30/06/1948European Convention
on Human Rights
03/09/1953Abortion Act 1967
27/10/1967Death of Maria Colwell
[7-years-old]
06/01/1973Area Child Protection
Committees (ACPCs)
1974Report of the Committee
Inquiry into the Care and
Supervision Provided to
Maria Colwell
04/09/1974Children Act 1975
12/11/1975Death of Jasmine Beckford
[4-years-old]
05/07/1984Death of Tyra Henry
[21-months-old]
01/09/1984Report into the death of
Jasmine Beckford
06/05/1986Whose Child? Report into
the death of Tyra Henry
01/01/1987The Cleveland Inquiry
report published
06/07/1988Children Act 1989
17/11/1989Child Support
Act 1991
17/06/1991The UK Ratification of the
United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child
16/12/1991Protection of Children Act 1999
15/07/1999Sure Start programme
rolled out across England
November 1999International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination
07/03/1969International Covenant
on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights
20/05/1976International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights
20/05/1976Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women
07/04/1986Convention Against Torture
and other Cruel Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or
Punishment
08/12/1988Trinidad and Tobago join the
Federation of the West Indies
03/01/1958 - 31/02/1962International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination
04/10/1973Trinidad & Tobago become a Republic,
led by Prime Minister Eric Williams
01/03/1976International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
08/12/1978International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
21/12/1978Social Services Act 1970Social Workers: Their Role
& Tasks report
01/12/1982Modernising Social Services
White Paper
November 1998Working Together to
Safeguard Children 1999Death of James Bulger
[2-years-old]
12/02/1993Periods
WORLD WAR TWO
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