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Inquiry to examine police-youth relations

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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.

White paper sets out antisocial behaviour measures

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

| CYP Now

Criminal behaviour orders are set to replace antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos), under government plans to tackle crime and nuisance behaviour.

Youth reoffending rate reaches 10-year high

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Friday, November 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of young offenders who go on to commit further crimes has risen to the highest level for more than a decade, latest figures show.

Commissioner backs mentors for young offenders

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

All young offenders should have access to an adult mentor, a report by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People has claimed.

Support for most vulnerable may be lost with payment-by-results, warns charity

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Children with severe emotional problems or those deeply entrenched in gang culture may miss out on attempts to steer them onto the right path as a result of plans to introduce payment-by-results youth justice services, a charity has claimed.