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Riots panel urges young people to contribute to investigation

Thursday, October 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people are fed up of being blamed for August's riots, the head of a government panel probing the causes of the unrest has said.

Daily roundup: Wiltshire inspection, health guidance and teaching qualifications

Other

Friday, August 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted upgrades children's services in Wiltshire; Scotland's children's commissioner calls for urgent review of teachers' health guidance; and an early years professional complains over teacher training rejection, all in the news today.

London mayor's resettlement scheme suffers further delay

News

Thursday, October 3, 2013

| CYP Now

A provider for a major young offender resettlement scheme has yet to be appointed more than a year after the scheduled launch date, CYP Now has learned.

Exploited girls commit crime to escape abusers, report reveals

News

Monday, July 9, 2012

| CYP Now

Sexually exploited girls commit crime in order to escape the men who exploit them, but often end up being punished by the authorities rather than helped, a report has found.

Daily roundup: Doncaster resignation, riots report, and GCSE legal challenge

Other

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

The chair of Doncaster's Children's Board steps down, post-riots report calls for improved youth engagement in Tottenham, and the GCSE grade boundaries argument reaches court, all in the news today.

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.

Youth courts need urgent reform, finds inquiry

News

Thursday, June 19, 2014

| CYP Now

The youth court system is not fit for purpose and needs urgent reform, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Daily roundup: Legislation to cap benefits, 'pornification', and fast food in Wales

Other

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| CYP Now

A law to introduce a new cap on benefits is passed in the House of Commons, Labour MP Diane Abbott warns about the danger of hardcore porn, and calls for a ban on fast food chains near schools in Wales, all in the news today.

Young offender assessment system given green light

News

Monday, March 4, 2013

| CYP Now

A new assessment system for young offenders will drive down reoffending rates and reduce the use of remands to custody, the Youth Justice Board has said.

Daily roundup: Female genital mutilation, child poverty and arrests of girls

News

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

NSPCC warning over FGM teacher training gaps, predictions of a nine per cent rise in child poverty, and police arrest fewer girls, all in the news today.

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

News

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice agencies are failing to give vulnerable girls the support they need because services are too geared towards helping boys, a newly formed pressure group has claimed.

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

News

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| CYP Now

Children in residential care are being criminalised at excessively high rates compared with other boys and girls, a campaign group has claimed.

Plans for specialist YOI units 'nonsensical', claims Howard League

News

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

| CYP Now

A prison reform group has hit out at proposals to develop small, specialist units in young offender institutions (YOIs), labelling the idea "nonsensical".

Inspectors slam Met Police for 'inexcusable' child protection failures

News

Friday, November 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Fundamental deficiencies in the way the Metropolitan Police (Met) understands and responds to child abuse and child sexual exploitation (CSE) are placing children in London at risk, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has warned.

Home Office under fire for 'short-sighted' custody plans

News

Thursday, September 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Campaigners have criticised the Home Office after it emerged that 17-year-olds will not receive the same rights as other children held in police custody despite a High Court ruling.

Daily roundup: Child poverty, special educational needs, and rough sleeping

Other

Friday, February 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Change in child poverty indicators urged; teaching assistants taking the lead on SEN, and £1m research project on children sleeping rough, all in today's news roundup.

PCCs to form early intervention group to reduce youth offending

News

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are to link up with early intervention experts to help widen the use of preventative projects for young people at risk of getting in trouble with the law.

Daily roundup: Child sexual exploitation; speech and language needs, and UKBA

Other

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

| CYP Now

Head teachers branded too "hesitant" to tackle child sexual exploitation; a report into communication needs and social disadvantage, and UKBA backtracks on restraint guidelines for pregnant women, all in the news today.

Consultation: Transforming Youth Custody: Putting education at the heart of detention

Other

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Daily roundup: Early intervention funding, UK Youth Parliament, and the age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland

Other

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association calls on government to rethink plan to "top-slice" early intervention cash, 250,000 young people vote in a UKYP consultation, and the Northern Irish justice minister advocates increasing the age of criminal responsibility, all in the news today.

Youth justice roundup

Other

Thursday, October 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Police use of tasers on children rising, application launched to combat "sexting", and Ministry of Justice commits to maintaining family relationships of female inmates, all in the news in the past seven days.

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

News

Monday, June 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Up to 25 local authorities will be judged on their multi-agency child protection arrangements under new inspections being introduced in April 2015, it has been announced.

Birmingham to use Home Office gangs fund to work with girls

News

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

| CYP Now

Help for young women on the cusp of gang activity will form a central plank of government-funded work in Birmingham to tackle gang and youth violence, it has been announced.

Riots response has made gangs more violent

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Moves to arrest hundreds of gang members in the wake of last year's riots has led to an increase in violence, chaos and anarchy because younger inexperienced members are filling the leadership vacuum, a think-tank says.

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

News

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Police, councils, youth services, and schools should be working with children as young as seven to prevent them getting involved with gangs or violent youth crime, it has been claimed.