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A five-point plan for urgent youth custody reform

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
    • | CYP Now
“Youth custody needs urgent reform,” shouted a recent headline. They were not the words of a children’s right lobbyist or penal reformer, but from the newly appointed chief executive of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), Stephanie Roberts-Bibby. A voice from inside government. This is surely significant.

Solutions to failing youth court on ministers' desks

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Elizabeth Haslam, a former nurse, founded the Michael Sieff Foundation in memory of her late husband in 1987. Immediate motivation came from the publication of the report into the death of Jasmine Beckford some four years earlier. Jasmine had been beaten and starved to death by her stepfather.

Make Oakhill review public to shape youth custody

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 24, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I met Chris in 2009. In his early 20s, Chris had been recruited to work at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Previously a youth worker, he said he surprised himself by his career move into youth custody.

Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Intersectionality is a concept to describe the interconnected nature of social categorisations as they apply to a given individual or group, which create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Corporate providers must be held to account

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The moving of children from Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre should be a stark warning that we have systematically failed to protect the most vulnerable from abuse, failed to hold those in authority to account and failed to mend a broken system.

Bias recognition vital to tackle disproportionality

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
I had in many ways a privileged middle-class childhood. As well as a smattering of rather poor exam results, my upbringing gave me huge dollops of unconscious bias, particularly in respect to people of different backgrounds, races and ethnicities. Over the last 50 years, I have worked at expunging this bias, often slowly and painfully.

Recognise failure for successful secure schools

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 30, 2021
    • | CYP Now
This April would have been the 25th anniversary of the opening of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC). Like most, if not all, secure establishments it had a rocky start but represented the beginning of a major reform in youth justice. As we await the birth of the new secure school on the site of the original STC it is worth reflecting on the past 25 years.

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