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YJB warns minister of serious incident risk

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Moves to relax national standards for youth offending teams could lead to serious incidents such as murders or rape as a result of looser supervision, the Youth Justice Board has warned.

Ministers report progress on diversion schemes for mentally ill young offenders

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Monday, April 23, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth justice minister Crispin Blunt and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley have outlined the progress made towards diverting the mentally ill away from the justice system into treatment and care at a Westminster reception today (23 April).

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.

YJB chair Lord McNally backs age of criminality review

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

| CYP Now

The chair of the Youth Justice Board has added his voice to growing calls for a rethink on the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales.

No decision on girls in secure colleges, government adviser claims

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

| CYP Now

A final decision on whether girls will be held alongside boys in secure colleges has yet to be made, a senior government mandarin has insisted.

Legal Update: In a nutshell - Launch of new protocol on handling stalking

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

The Crown Prosecution Service and police have introduced a new protocol on the appropriate handling of stalking offences.

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.

May scraps anonymity for young rioters

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has called on magistrates to name and shame children involved in last week's riots, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

Children 'not facing harsh riot sentences'

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

| CYP Now

Children are not being sentenced more harshly for crimes associated with riots across cities in England earlier this month, the vice-chair of the Magistrates' Association has said.

Prison Reform Trust backs Clarke's call for better rehabilitation

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

| CYP Now

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke's calls for rehabilitation in secure settings to be improved have been backed by The Prison Reform Trust.

Ofsted calls for body-worn cameras across all youth custody settings

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Staff in all youth custody settings should be made to wear body cameras in a bid to prevent mistreatment of young people, Ofsted and the Prisons Inspectorate have said.

Secure homes to lose places as YJB cuts beds for young offenders

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

| CYP Now

Numbers of custodial places in secure children's homes (SCHs) are to be cut due to falling custody levels, prompting fresh concerns over the care of vulnerable children.

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.

YOTs gear up for introduction of gang injunctions

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams are to receive training to prepare them for the introduction of controversial gang injunctions for children.

Magistrates call for increase in restorative justice options for young offenders

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Restorative justice is being underused in the youth justice system because of a lack of sentencing options for young offenders, the head of the Magistrates' Association has said.

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.

Government admits placing young offenders in adult jails

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has been accused of breaking an international treaty on children's rights after it emerged that young offenders are being transferred from youth custody to adult prisons.

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.

Call for secure training centre consultation to be ditched

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Friday, June 29, 2012

| CYP Now

A campaigning charity has called for a consultation on the future of secure training centre (STC) inspections to be abandoned, labelling the process as "flimsy" and "poorly considered".