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Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

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

News

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.

Policing priorities for children revealed

Other

Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

In her first interview as police lead for children and young people, Jacqui Cheer outlines her new youth strategy.

Inquiry to examine police-youth relations

News

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

| CYP Now

MPs and peers have launched an inquiry into the way the police interact with children and young people.

South coast council cuts youth justice entrants

News

Thursday, October 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Brighton & Hove City Council has cut by nearly a third the number of young people entering the youth justice system in its area over the past year.

YJB faces further budget cuts

News

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is facing a 10 per cent cut to funding after it emerged the organisation will receive 365m from central government for the coming financial year.

Youth offending team budgets take seven per cent hit

News

Friday, May 4, 2012

| CYP Now

Central funding for youth offending teams from the Youth Justice Board has been cut by nearly seven per cent this year, it has been confirmed.

Mistakes must not haunt a young person's future

Other

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's commissioner for Northern Ireland Patricia Lewsley-Mooney says young people should not be penalised for early-life mistakes.

Magistrates to oversee community supervision of young offenders

News

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Magistrates are to be handed new powers to manage the rehabilitation of young offenders.

YJB reveals focus on outcomes in latest business plan

News

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Reducing numbers of young people in custody and managing a smooth transition into the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are among the main aims for the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in its latest business plan.

YJB urged to boost evidence base for programmes with young offenders

News

Thursday, December 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOT) and secure estate providers have asked the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to support improvements in the way interventions with young people are measured.

The Youth Justice Board: 1999-2011

Other

Monday, October 18, 2010

| CYP Now

Somewhere in the archives of early 21st-century British social policy, there may be a dusty volume that records the fact that I was the only person who served under all five chairs of the Youth Justice Board - the supremely confident and connected Norman Warner, interim chair and passionate advocate of restorative justice Charles Pollard, the intellectually unsurpassable Rod Morgan, the pragmatic and effective Graham Robb (another interim chair), and the cautious but industrious Frances Done.

Youth justice roundup

News

Thursday, April 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Smartphone warning, youth offending project saved, but gangs initiative to close, all in the news this week.

Ashfield YOI to close in response to falling custody levels

News

Thursday, January 10, 2013

| CYP Now

A controversial privately run young offender institution is to stop holding under-18s as part of a prison estate shake-up announced by the Ministry of Justice today.

Daily roundup: Immigration detention, Scottish children's wards, and ‘peer courts'

Other

Monday, February 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Outrage over the decision to sanction the use force on pregnant women in immigration detention, a call for a review of children's wards in Scotland, and a 'peer sentencing' pilot Hampshire, all in the news today.