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YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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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.

Gove recruits Narey as Ministry of Justice adviser

Thursday, August 20, 2015

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Justice Secretary Michael Gove has appointed Sir Martin Narey as an adviser at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), it has been announced.

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

Thursday, July 23, 2015

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Runaway and missing children are being exploited by criminal gangs in order to expand inner city drug networks into county towns, a study has found.

Judges enlisted for 2015 CYP Now Awards as entries reach record high

Friday, July 17, 2015

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The judging panel for the 2015 Children & Young People Now Awards has been confirmed.

Eight new members join education select committee

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

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The makeup of the education select committee has been finalised, with the majority of the membership sitting on the scrutiny body for the first time.

Children's commissioners: Cuts will plunge more children into poverty

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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The government should shelve planned cuts to benefits to prevent more young people falling into poverty, the four UK children's commissioners have said.

YOTs 'failing to learn' from serious incidents involving young offenders

Monday, June 29, 2015

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Lessons are not being learned from serious incidents such as rape and murder committed by young offenders known to youth justice services, a review has found.

Funding for children's charities cut by £150m

Monday, June 8, 2015

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Charities working with children and young people have lost more than £150m of government funding in the past year, it has emerged.

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

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Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.

Haringey 'missed chances' to help young killer

Thursday, May 28, 2015

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Haringey Council has been criticised for failing a teenage boy who is serving a life sentence for murdering a stranger in the street.

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

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Youth justice agencies are failing to give vulnerable girls the support they need because services are too geared towards helping boys, a newly formed pressure group has claimed.

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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More than 50 children's sector organisations have joined forces to call on the next government to significantly boost early intervention spending.

Guide helps children's professionals understand key election pledges

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Children & Young People Now presents the definitive guide to what the main parliamentary parties are pledging on key issues for children, young people and families.

Framework set to improve councils' response to harmful sexual behaviour by children

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

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A group of charities, youth justice agencies and council leaders have come together to tackle the lack of support for children who display harmful sexual behaviour (HSB).

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

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Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

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

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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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.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

Friday, March 20, 2015

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A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

Thursday, March 19, 2015

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A teenage young offender found hanged in his cell was let down by the "collective corporate system", according to a damning serious case review (SCR) into his death.

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

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MPs have criticised Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) for their handling of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

Inspectorate censures police for holding vulnerable children in cells

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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Police forces have been criticised for placing vulnerable children in cells as a substitute for appropriate welfare provision.

Children's centres bear brunt of Newcastle service cuts

Friday, March 6, 2015

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Newcastle City Council has approved £3.2m worth of cuts to Sure Start and family services.

Hackney innovation scheme to divert young people from gangs

Thursday, March 5, 2015

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Teenagers at risk of gang crime and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Hackney are to benefit from £1.97m worth of children's social care innovation fund money.

Professionals who fail to act on CSE face five-year jail term

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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Children's social workers, teachers and local councillors will face up to five years in jail for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Gang prevention work needs to start in primary school, say MPs

Friday, February 27, 2015

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Urgent action is needed in schools to warn pupils as young as seven of the dangers of gang involvement, according to a report by MPs.

Inspectorate slams children's court custody procedures in Surrey and Sussex

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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The court custody system in Sussex and Surrey has been severely criticised by the prisons inspectorate for its treatment of child defendants.

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