 The Committee on the Rights of the Child has urged the UK to alter its policy so as to ensure that children cannot take part in hostilities under any circumstances.In negotiations on the OPAC during the 1990s the UK joined the US in opposing a global minimum enlistment age of 18.In 2014, a group of 17-year-old army recruits alleged that 17 instructors had maltreated them during their training over nine days in June 2014.