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YJB faces further budget cuts

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.

Truss strips YJB of youth custody role

News

Friday, February 24, 2017

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) will no longer be responsible for commissioning and overseeing the youth secure estate, with a new body being established to take on the role, it has been announced.

YJB warns minister of serious incident risk

News

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.

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.

NSPCC survey finds violence in the home increases risk of antisocial behaviour in children

News

Thursday, May 31, 2012

| CYP Now

Children who witness family violence are more likely to seriously harm another person, run away from home, be excluded from school or carry a weapon, according to a survey by the NSPCC.

Daily roundup: School safeguarding, children's services and child injuries

Other

Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Gove highlights FGM risk in letter to school head teachers; Coventry councillors work together to improve children's services; and Nottinghamshire councils develop plan to cut child injuries, all in the news today.

YJB chair Lord McNally backs age of criminality review

News

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.

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.

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

Other

Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

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

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

News

Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

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.

Daily roundup: Free schools approved, child health contract in Devon and concern for Lancashire primary schools

Other

Friday, July 13, 2012

| CYP Now

The next wave of free schools, a contract for children's health services in Devon, and concerns over primary school standards in Lancashire, are all in the news today.

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.

How course reduces risk of offending behaviour

Other

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Project improves outcomes for 14- to 25-year-olds with learning or communication difficulties involved in or at risk of offending.

Youth workers tackle knife crime in Northampton

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Forty-eight-week programme supports young people at risk of getting involved in knife crime.

Top officer slams slow progress of police engagement with children

News

Monday, January 18, 2016

| CYP Now

Progress on improving the way police engage with young people is "pedestrian", the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Council revamps youth service to target potential offenders

News

Thursday, May 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Young people involved in crime and at risk of exclusion from school will be the main focus of a London borough "new-look" youth service, it has been announced.

Concern over increase in county lines grooming during pandemic

News

Thursday, December 16, 2021

| CYP Now

Almost half of parents and carers say the risk of children being exploited by drug gangs in their local area has increased during the pandemic, according to The Children’s Society.

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.

London gangs project transforms thousands of young lives

News

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

| CYP Now

??A London-based project for those caught up in gangs has transformed the lives of thousands of young people in 10 years, analysis shows.??

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.

Police and crime commissioners to influence YOT funding

News

Friday, November 18, 2011

| CYP Now

The creation of police and crime commissioner posts across England and Wales next year will have a "considerable impact" on youth offending teams (YOTs) and their funding streams, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has warned.

Home Office brands chief constable's cuts comments 'irresponsible'

News

Friday, February 25, 2011

| CYP Now

A chief constable has been criticised by the Home Office after claiming that cuts to his force will place vulnerable people "at risk".

Openness should nip extremism in the bud

Other

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

It is just over a month since the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby shocked the country, and then triggered a spate of reprisals. In typically strident-sounding fashion, the government set up a "taskforce" - the crisis-management response tool of choice for politicians these days.