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West Sussex youth services hit by 2m of cuts

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

| CYP Now

West Sussex County Council has announced 2m cuts to its youth services.

Police DNA rights challenged by court

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

| CYP Now

The right of the police to keep DNA samples taken from young people is to be questioned in court.

Call for end to short sentences for young offenders

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

| CYP Now

Youth justice charity Catch 22 is calling for an end to short sentencing for young offenders after a National Audit Office report found such measures were not cost-effective and offered minimal chance for rehabilitation.

Teaching union backs prison visits for pupils

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Friday, April 18, 2008

| CYP Now

Research conducted by a teaching union has backed the idea of sending ex-gang members into schools and taking students on prison visits.

Plaid Cymru renews calls for youth justice to be devolved to Wales

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

| CYP Now

Plaid Cymru has renewed its call for youth justice in Wales to be devolved to the Welsh Assembly.

Home Secretary calls for squeeze on cannabis

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| CYP Now

The Home Secretary has told police chiefs to crack down on cannabis use, after the government decided to reclassify the drug.

Rathbone renews funding plea for anti-knife scheme after Brooke Kinsella calls on schools to teach crime prevention

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Monday, November 1, 2010

| CYP Now

National charity Rathbone is calling on the government to better support programmes that help young people to understand the dangers of knife crime, before the problem gets worse.

Children's charities urge Gove to protect voluntary sector from 'devastating cuts'

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

| CYP Now

Children and families' charities have written an open letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove expressing concern about the impact spending cuts will have on the most vulnerable children and the charities that support them.

YOIs fail to provide young offenders with legal services, Blunt concedes

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Young offender institutions (YOIs) are not meeting a duty to provide legal services officers who can give advice on a range of issues including potential appeals, youth justice minister Crispin Blunt has admitted.

Better joint working needed to stop young people falling into cycle of crime

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

| CYP Now

A strategy is needed to improve joint working between government departments and public services to rehabilitate young people with multiple needs and help them escape a life in the criminal justice system, a charity has claimed.

Election 2010 update: Tory candidates from the children's sector fail to win seats

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Friday, May 7, 2010

| CYP Now

Two highly publicised Conservative candidates from the children and young people's sector failed to get into parliament last night in tightly fought constituency battles.

Number of Scottish children on supervision requirements peaks

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| CYP Now

The number of Scottish children placed under compulsory supervision has reached its highest level since records began.

Youth inclusion programmes deemed a success

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| CYP Now

More than 25,000 young people at risk of offending have been reached by a youth inclusion programme (YIP), a review has found.

London knife crime inquiry launches

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Monday, November 17, 2008

| CYP Now

A major inquiry into knife crime in London is launching today (Monday).

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

Treat 17-year-olds in police custody as children, court rules

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

| CYP Now

The High Court has ruled that 17-year-olds who are arrested and taken into police custody should be treated as children.

Drones and artificial intelligence to tackle youth violence? Home Office seeks 'innovative' ideas

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

| CYP Now

New technological ways of tackling serious youth violence - such as the use of drones or artificial intelligence (AI) to identify people carrying knives - are set to be considered as part of a government drive to develop innovative ideas.

Home Office announces £18m for youth projects to tackle serious violence

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| CYP Now

A total of 29 projects working to divert children and young people away from violent crime in England and Wales will receive government funding worth £17.7 million over two years, the Home Office has announced.

UK Youth Parliament to campaign for action on knife crime

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Members of the UK Youth Parliament have chosen to campaign on tackling knife crime and lowering the voting age to 16 in 2019.

Prisons inspectorate blasts Ashfield YOI for unacceptable levels of violence

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

| CYP Now

A young offender institution has "compromised the safety" of young people, with some suffering broken bones at the hands of staff, an official report says.

Trial to curb strip-searching in youth custody

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Compulsory strip-searching of under-18s arriving in custody is to be halted at a youth prison in a trial that could see the practice scrapped altogether.

Calls to overhaul youth remand system

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Thursday, January 10, 2019

| CYP Now

A raft of reforms are needed to tackle rising rates of unconvicted children being "warehoused in unsafe child jails", a youth justice organisation has claimed.

Youth charities win funding to combat gang violence

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The Rio Ferdinand Foundation is one of two youth charities to be handed more than £745,000 in Big Lottery Fund money to engage hard-to-reach groups.

Ofsted urges support for schools to fight knife crime

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

| CYP Now

Stronger multi-agency partnerships are needed to support schools to deal with knife crime, according to new research from Ofsted.

Campaigners urge Lib Dems to suspend new legal aid proposals

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Monday, September 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's rights charities have written to Liberal Democrat MPs and peers warning them that proposed legal aid changes could have significant implications for the rights and protection of vulnerable children.

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West Sussex youth services hit by 2m of cuts

Police DNA rights challenged by court

Call for end to short sentences for young offenders

Teaching union backs prison visits for pupils

Plaid Cymru renews calls for youth justice to be devolved to Wales

Home Secretary calls for squeeze on cannabis

Rathbone renews funding plea for anti-knife scheme after Brooke Kinsella calls on schools to teach crime prevention

Children's charities urge Gove to protect voluntary sector from 'devastating cuts'

YOIs fail to provide young offenders with legal services, Blunt concedes

Better joint working needed to stop young people falling into cycle of crime

Election 2010 update: Tory candidates from the children's sector fail to win seats

Number of Scottish children on supervision requirements peaks

Youth inclusion programmes deemed a success

London knife crime inquiry launches

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

Treat 17-year-olds in police custody as children, court rules

Drones and artificial intelligence to tackle youth violence? Home Office seeks 'innovative' ideas

Home Office announces £18m for youth projects to tackle serious violence

UK Youth Parliament to campaign for action on knife crime

Prisons inspectorate blasts Ashfield YOI for unacceptable levels of violence

Trial to curb strip-searching in youth custody

Calls to overhaul youth remand system

Youth charities win funding to combat gang violence

Ofsted urges support for schools to fight knife crime

Campaigners urge Lib Dems to suspend new legal aid proposals

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