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Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

The current Ofsted inspection system for children's services should be scrapped and replaced with a light-touch but better-targeted approach, children's services and local authority leaders say.

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to make emergency in-year cuts of £13.5m to youth justice work have been blasted by children's services chiefs and youth justice managers.

Campaigners call on police to end overnight detention of young people

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| CYP Now

Prison campaigners have called for a ban on under 14s being detained in police cells overnight, labelling the practice "dangerous and frightening".

YOTs urged to improve data sharing on imprisoned children

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) have been told to improve the way they share information on young people sentenced to custody to make services more efficient and safe.

Inquiry reveals failings prior to death of 15-year-old in custody

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Better communication between prison staff and mental health services may have helped prevent the suicide of a 15-year-old boy in youth custody, an inquiry has found.

Northamptonshire custody staff 'need better child protection training'

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

| CYP Now

Improvements in safeguarding training must be made in police custody suites in Northamptonshire, inspectors have said.

Courts set to consider ethnicity when sentencing under-18s

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

| CYP Now

Courts will be required to take into account the overrepresentation of black and ethnic minority children in the youth justice system when they sentence children, under new guidance coming into force this summer.

YOI praised for progress prior to custody death

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

| CYP Now

A young offender institution where a 15-year-old boy was found hanging in January was praised by inspectors following a visit just two months before his death, a report has revealed.

Critics attack ‘illegal' plan to use force in secure colleges

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Campaigners have hit out at plans to allow staff at secure colleges the power to use force on children and young people to "ensure good order and discipline".

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

NSPCC urges focus on cases of child sexual abuse by under-18s

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Police have received more than 5,000 reports of under-18-year-olds sexually abusing other children over the last three years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC.

Young people in secure children's homes exceed education expectations

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Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Rates of education progress for young people held in secure children's homes are around double the expected level, a study has found.

Inspectors criticise Norfolk Police on child sexual exploitation

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Norfolk Police has been told to take urgent action to improve its work on child sexual exploitation (CSE) after inspectors highlighted concerns over the issue.

Parliament to have power of veto on placing girls in secure college

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs and Lords will have the power to block plans to hold girls and younger boys in a controversial £80m secure college following a government climb-down in the face of opposition.

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Spending on staff in young offender institutions (YOIs) will be cut and efforts to make the restraint system safer will be shelved as part of Youth Justice Board (YJB) proposals to deal with emergency in-year cuts imposed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), it has emerged.

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Children's services leaders call for wholesale changes to Ofsted inspection system

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

Campaigners call on police to end overnight detention of young people

YOTs urged to improve data sharing on imprisoned children

Inquiry reveals failings prior to death of 15-year-old in custody

Northamptonshire custody staff 'need better child protection training'

Courts set to consider ethnicity when sentencing under-18s

YOI praised for progress prior to custody death

Critics attack ‘illegal' plan to use force in secure colleges

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

NSPCC urges focus on cases of child sexual abuse by under-18s

Young people in secure children's homes exceed education expectations

Inspectors criticise Norfolk Police on child sexual exploitation

Parliament to have power of veto on placing girls in secure college

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

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