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Daily roundup: Care leavers' charter, missing children in Kent, and homeless families in B&B accommodation

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson launches a Charter for Care Leavers, concerns over missing children in Kent, and the number of homeless families in temporary accommodation in Westminster rises again, all in the news today.

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.

Councils ‘turn around' one in three troubled families

News

Monday, November 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities in England have "turned around" the lives of more than one in three struggling families they have been working intensively with as part of the government's Troubled Families programme.

Daily roundup: Gang crime, adoption powers and state boarding school

Other

Friday, December 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Fall in youth violence since riots; BAAF welcomes changes to proposed adoption powers; and planners hinder state boarding school bid, all in the news today.

Youth justice roundup

Other

Thursday, January 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Children held in cells overnight; early intervention scheme in Lancashire; and gang violence falling in Islington, all in this week's youth justice roundup.

Service praised for coping with cuts and riots

News

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Staff at a London youth offending team that had its offices destroyed by fire during last summer's riots have been praised by inspectors for their enthusiasm and attempts to improve practice.

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.

Good Practice: Hailed US communities scheme in UK trials

Best Practice

Friday, September 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Catch22 is to pursue the Communities That Care scheme in light of compelling evidence that it works for young people in the US.

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".

Fears cuts to YOTs will trigger youth custody rise

News

Monday, October 5, 2015

| CYP Now

More children and young people could end up in custody if proposed emergency cuts to funding for youth offending teams (YOTs) are rubber-stamped, local government leaders have warned.

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.

Good Idea: Young people confront anger on knife crime programme

Other

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

A London-based charity is educating young people about the dangers and consequences of carrying and using knives.

Managers brand youth offending team stocktake ‘a cover for cuts'

News

Friday, May 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth offending team (YOT) managers have criticised a "biased" government review of their work, claiming it is simply concerned with earmarking potential cuts.

Youth offending service policies

Analysis

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams use a range of approaches governing the searching of young people for weapons.

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit, on why the organisation has created a resource summarising the best research on different approaches to preventing serious youth violence.

Youth work diversion role lauded

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts hail youth workers’ skills in tackling violence and call for funding to create ‘trusted relationships’.

Contextual Safeguarding tackles youth violence in Oldham

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

Project has seen increased engagement from young people and the community and aims to deliver sustained change in areas affected by youth violence.

Bid to increase age of criminal responsibility dismissed by government

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Calls by leading children's charities for the age of criminal responsibility to be increased have been rejected by government.

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.

YOT budget reductions 'undermine efforts on reoffending'

News

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| CYP Now

London Councils has warned that cuts to youth offending teams (YOTs) will stifle efforts to reduce crime.

Good Practice: How a club cuts antisocial behaviour

Other

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

The Unity Saturday Club gave young people aged 12 to 18 the chance to listen to music, play computer games and try street dancing, MC-ing and DJ-ing.

Hinnigan outlines revised guidance plans for YOTs

News

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Updated guidance on the shape and management of youth offending teams (YOTs) is to be issued in light of changes to how they are expected to work, the Youth Justice Board has confirmed.