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Number of first-time young offenders fell by a quarter in 2012

Friday, May 31, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of young people getting into trouble with the law for the first time is continuing to plummet, latest figures show.

Social enterprise to create jobs for young offenders

News

Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Young offenders will be able to get a job through a new social enterprise initiative launched by a local authority youth offending team (YOT).

Popularity of new 'youth conditional caution' called into question

News

Thursday, August 16, 2012

| CYP Now

The popularity of a new sanction for low-level youth offending has been called into question after it emerged that a total of just 173 youth conditional cautions have been handed out across three major police forces in a government trial.

Plan to axe YJB weakened its influence, says chief

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Government attempts to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) resulted in it losing its authority, the chief executive of the organisation has conceded.

Number of first-time young offenders falls by a fifth

News

Friday, February 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of young people entering the criminal justice system for the first time has dropped by 20 per cent, according to the latest official figures.

Brinsford YOI slammed for 'squalid' conditions

News

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Campaigners are demanding the closure of a young offender institution near Wolverhampton after conditions were labelled as the worst seen by inspectors.

Quality of Croydon YOT assessments 'often insufficient', say inspectors

News

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

| CYP Now

More must be done to improve the quality of work at a London youth offending team (YOT) affected by the riots, inspectors have said.

Gove orders review of youth justice system

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Friday, September 11, 2015

| CYP Now

A former government adviser on school behaviour will head a review of the youth justice system, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has announced.

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to make emergency in-year cuts of £13.5m to youth justice work have been blasted by children's services chiefs and youth justice managers.

How schemes divert young people in London from formal justice system

Features

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Youth diversion schemes offering an alternative to formal criminal justice proceedings are improving outcomes for young people involved in low-level criminal behaviour.

Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

News

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Involving youth offending services with the government's troubled families agenda could help reduce numbers of young people getting in trouble with the law, MPs have been told.

MPs back mandatory sentences for knife possession

News

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Plans for over-16s to face mandatory custodial sentences if they are convicted of a knife offence for a second time have been backed by MPs.

Riots reinforce need for early intervention, says Allen

News

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

| CYP Now

The MP who led a review on early intervention has called for the government to hold its nerve in pursuing long-term societal change in the wake of riots across England.

Youth professionals welcome Cameron's taskforce to tackle gang culture

Analysis

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

| CYP Now

In the wake of the riots that shook the country last month, Prime Minister David Cameron has made a pledge to put gangs at the top of his agenda.

Inspectors criticise efforts to tackle youth reoffending in London borough

News

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Bromley Youth Offending Service (YOS) has come in for criticism for failing to do enough to tackle high reoffending rates for young offenders.

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

| CYP Now

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.

Children held on remand are to be classed as 'looked-after' by councils

News

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| CYP Now

All young people remanded in custody will have to be recognised as looked-after children by local authorities, under plans to reduce reoffending and shake up the justice system.

Campaigners urge Labour to make age of criminal responsibility central to justice policy

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Raising the age of criminal responsibility and focusing more on early intervention at a local level should form the basis of Labour's new criminal justice policy, according to a campaign group.

Youth reoffending on the rise

News

Monday, October 31, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth reoffending rates have risen in seven out of 10 local authorities, latest government statistics have shown, bucking a downward trend in recent years.