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Secure training centre inspections

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  • Monday, April 30, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Will the proposed new joint inspection system better promote the rights of young offenders, asks Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre

Secure estate plans focus on specialist units

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2012
  • | CYP Now
It has been a tumultuous year for the youth secure estate, with no less than 10 suicides of teenagers in custody since the beginning of March 2011 and the sudden spike in custody rates as a result of last summer's riots providing some worrying challenges.

Councils stung by 500m youth remand bill

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  • Monday, September 19, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The government's proposed changes to the youth justice system could cost local authorities an additional half a billion pounds each year, an investigation by CYP Now has found.

Lord Carlile blasts restraint progress

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  • Monday, April 18, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile of Berriew led an independent inquiry into the use of restraint, solitary confinement and strip-searching on children in custody back in 2006.

No going back to jail

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The Heron Wing at Feltham Young Offender Institution has set out to drive down reoffending rates. Tom de Castella reports.

Speech therapists fear lack of offender support

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Community healthcare trusts are being urged not to drop speech and language therapist services for young offenders after the first young offender institution (YOI) to introduce the provision has scrapped its only full-time post.

Youth Justice: Autistic or criminal?

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  • Monday, October 25, 2010
  • | CYP Now
People with autism are seven times more likely to come into contact with the legal system than the public at large. Rowenna Davis asks just how well prepared the criminal justice system is for identifying young people with mental health conditions.