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Youth reoffending on the rise

    News
  • Monday, October 31, 2011
    • | CYP Now
Youth reoffending rates have risen in seven out of 10 local authorities, latest government statistics have shown, bucking a downward trend in recent years.

Police cannot tackle gangs alone, MPs told

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2011
    • | CYP Now
A former US police chief who tackled gang violence in some of America's toughest cities has warned MPs that they won't be able to get rid of gangs completely.

YJB 'could win reprieve'

    News
  • Monday, September 12, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The government is considering a dramatic U-turn on plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board (YJB) as a result of last month's riots, CYP Now understands.

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.

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.

Lords vote to save Youth Justice Board

    News
  • Tuesday, March 29, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The government has been dealt a blow over plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board after the House of Lords passed an amendment that the organisation should be retained.

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.

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