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Youth Offending Special Report

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Levels of offending by young people have fallen sharply since 2012, but severe offences now make up a greater proportion of convictions highlighting the need for services to deliver more intensive early help.

Child sexual abuse inquiry recommends creation of new child protection authority

News

Thursday, October 20, 2022

| CYP Now

A seven-year inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales recommends the creation of a new child protection authority (CPA) as well as calling for the prosecution of people who work with children and fail to report allegations of abuse.

Council refutes MP's claims children's services interfered in police investigations

News

Monday, October 17, 2022

| CYP Now

Blackpool Council has refuted an MP's claims that children's services “interfered” with police investigations around anti-social behaviour, including his suggestion that an 11-year-old is a gang ringleader.

Children’s commissioner urges police forces to submit child strip-search data

News

Friday, October 14, 2022

| CYP Now

Dame Rachel de Souza has called on police forces in England and Wales to submit data on the number of strip-searches carried out on children, in the wake of the Child Q case.

Inspectors identify high levels of drug use and self-harm at Parc YOI

News

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

| CYP Now

While Parc Young Offender Institute (YOI) sustains its reputation as a "safe and decent prison", more work is needed to reduce incidents of self-harm, violence, and availability of drugs, according to inspectors.

Sadiq Khan to lobby Home Secretary over knife arches in youth justice buildings

News

Monday, October 10, 2022

| CYP Now

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will lobby the Home Secretary to install weapons detection systems at buildings used by youth justice services in the capital.

Sadiq Khan announces £8m funding to embed youth workers in emergency departments

News

Friday, October 7, 2022

| CYP Now

The Mayor of London has announced almost £8 million in funding to embed youth workers in A&E departments across London over the next three years.

Charity receives £5m to support county lines victims

News

Thursday, October 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Catch22 has been granted up to £5 million in Home Office funding to continue its work supporting young victims of county lines drug gangs.

Mentoring projects set to benefit from £12.5m fund

News

Monday, October 3, 2022

| CYP Now

Projects supporting young people involved in exploitation, crime or serious violence by assigning them a mentor to act as a “trusted adult” can bid for a share of a new grant round launched by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF).

Child Q: Labour pledges mandatory rules around strip searching children

News

Thursday, September 29, 2022

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has promised to introduce mandatory rules and safeguards around the strip searching of children by police officers, should it win the next general election.

Four questions for new Youth Custody Service boss

Opinion

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| CYP Now

It was recently announced that Helga Swidenbank, the executive director of the Youth Custody Service (YCS), is leaving the service.

PCCs urged to step up support for care-experienced young people

News

Thursday, September 22, 2022

| CYP Now

Less than a quarter of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales have pledged to protect children and young people with care-experience, new research shows.

Inspectors slam 'dysfunctional' secure estate's treatment of vulnerable girls

News

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

| CYP Now

The youth custody system is failing to effectively support vulnerable girls by placing them in inappropriate facilities, according to a damning joint inspection report.

Youth Custody Service chief to step down

News

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

| CYP Now

Helga Swidenbank is set to leave the Youth Custody Service (YCS), where she has been its executive director for the last four years.

Manchester VRU granted £1m for violence deterrence scheme

News

Friday, September 9, 2022

| CYP Now

Greater Manchester’s violence reduction unit (VRU) has received £1m of funding to pilot a new programme aimed at deterring young people from violence.

Kit Malthouse appointed as Education Secretary

News

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

| CYP Now

Kit Malthouse has been named as the new Education Secretary in Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first cabinet.

Guide to Qualifications and Training: Youth Justice

Other

Thursday, September 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Youth justice roles are available in youth offending teams (YOTs), the police, courts, Crown Prosecution Service, secure estate and voluntary sector. There are also roles in the Youth Justice Board (YJB), which oversees the system in England and Wales.

Home Office grants funding to Liverpool youth violence programme after shootings

News

Thursday, September 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The Home Office has announced a package of support for local authorities in Liverpool to deliver trauma-informed services in schools and violence prevention programmes to young people following a spate of shootings in the city.

Warning over placement of children from England and Wales in Scottish secure children’s homes

News

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

| CYP Now

The “most vulnerable” children in England and Wales are being sent to secure children’s homes (SCHs) in Scotland, new research warns, prompting calls for more provision to be created across the UK.