Search Results

Found 164 results for .

Call to tackle police violence against young people

    News
  • Thursday, October 13, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Police officers should receive specific training on how to communicate and deal with children and young people, as part of efforts to tackle the use of violence against them, a children's rights organisation has said. ?

Interview: Mark Johnson, founder, User Voice

    Features
  • Monday, November 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Mark Johnson is waging a war on interfering middlemen. He's angry young offenders do not have a voice, he's tired of social structures distancing them from policy-makers and he thinks government cuts demonstrate classist principles.

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.

YJB chair signals early intervention drive

    News
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The chair of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said that persuading police and crime commissioners of the importance of funding early intervention work will be one of his immediate priorities.

Youth custody figures hit new low

    News
  • Thursday, June 19, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Numbers of under-18s in custody have fallen to a new low, but black and ethnic minority young people now make up four out of every 10 of those detained, latest figures reveal.

‘Back to the old ways' for jobless young offenders

    Other
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Just under a decade ago, I visited a young offender institution with the first Children's Commissioner for Wales, the late Peter Clarke. Peter had never been to such a place and I recall how he was quite affected by many of its characteristics.

Current filters