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

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.

Youth offending teams make progress on health services

News

Thursday, July 28, 2011

| CYP Now

Health services provided by youth offending teams (YOTs) for children and young people are improving, a report has found.

Sutton Youth Offending Team

Best Practice

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

| CYP Now

How the team uses referral orders to help young people stop their offending behaviour before it becomes entrenched.

One in three young people in custody are in care system

News

Friday, October 2, 2015

| CYP Now

More than a third of under-18s in young offender institutions (YOI) are in the care system, it has emerged.

Youth offending teams to have more flexibility over national standards

News

Friday, March 25, 2011

| CYP Now

Minimum requirements for youth offending teams (YOTs) are to be relaxed under a pilot project being run by the Youth Justice Board (YJB).

Complacency threatens progress on youth violence

News

Monday, April 4, 2011

| CYP Now

The economic climate and complacency pose the biggest risk to tackling the issue of serious youth violence in London, a leading figure has said.

Small changes make big difference in cutting offending by looked-after children, study suggests

News

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

| CYP Now

Basic improvements to the way children are dealt with in care could lead to significant reductions in offending by looked-after children, a report has suggested.

Peer review prompts youth offending team restructure

News

Thursday, May 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth justice services in Hartlepool are to be restructured following the findings of a peer review, it has emerged.

Youth justice system fails looked-after children, say MPs

News

Thursday, March 14, 2013

| CYP Now

The youth justice system is letting down children in care and care leavers, according to a damning report by MPs.

Luton praised for quality of youth justice work

News

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| CYP Now

A youth offending team has been praised by inspectors for continuing to deliver high standards despite a major service restructure.

YJB allocates £2m for restorative justice training

News

Thursday, November 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities are to receive support to boost restorative justice work with young offenders after the Youth Justice Board announced a £2m grant.

Fears for children's safety as youth jails near capacity

News

Thursday, August 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Justice has refused to confirm fears that youth jails have reached capacity or outline its contingency plans to deal with the situation amid concerns that children's lives are being put in danger through overcrowding.

MoJ reveals post-riot custody levels

News

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

| CYP Now

New figures show numbers of children in custody in the wake of last month's riots peaked on 23 August and have now started to fall.

Injunctions tackle gang culture

Other

Monday, June 22, 2015

| CYP Now

The government has issued updated guidance on gang injunctions that could see them used more widely.

Independent trust's youth offending work deemed 'unsatisfactory'

News

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The first independent trust to be established by government to take on failing children's services has been told to improve its youth offending services after inspectors judged several areas of its work "unsatisfactory".

Police and crime commissioner to take over youth offending service

News

Friday, November 6, 2015

| CYP Now

One of the largest youth offending services in the country is set to be handed over to a police and crime commissioner in the first arrangement of its kind.

Government minister appointed to lead Youth Justice Board

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Government minister Lord McNally has been appointed as the new chair of the Youth Justice Board, it has been announced.

Andrew Selous appointed youth justice minister

News

Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Andrew Selous has been confirmed as the minister who will take on responsibility for youth justice.

Campaign to get police commissioners to consult with young people launched

News

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A campaign to encourage new police and crime commissioners to consult young people before developing policies has been launched by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Youth Justice Division to replace YJB in April 2012

News

Friday, July 15, 2011

| CYP Now

A date of April 2012 has been pencilled in for the abolition of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), to be replaced by a Youth Justice Division, it has emerged.

Secure estate to be safer, says YJB

News

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth jails will be safer and more child-focused as a result of planned changes to the secure estate over the next four years, the Youth Justice Board has said.

Preventing Youth Offending: Research evidence

Research

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Four studies on: Learning disability nursing; Risk, promotive and protective factors; Restorative justice-based practices; and Reinventing Diversion

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces should only attend children's homes to tackle extreme incidents of young people's behaviour, the country's top police officer for children's issues has said.

Inspectors criticise Croydon youth offending service

News

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending staff in Croydon have been criticised by inspectors for failing to protect members of the public from the young people they work with.