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Sport can tackle the problem of youth justice disproportionality

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
  • | CYP Now
In the 12 months before March 2020, children from black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds made up more than half the population in youth custody. In 2018/19, white children committed 61 per cent of all serious offences, but only accounted for 51 per cent of children in custody according to the Youth Justice Board’s Exploring Racial Disparity report.

Build communities to tackle knife crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Over the past few weeks YMCA has been approached by a number of different media outlets asking the same question: Is the rise in knife crime among young people due to youth service cuts?

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