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Sector leaders attend first national youth work and racial justice conference

Friday, May 20, 2022

| CYP Now

More than 50 black people and people of colour from across the youth work sector gathered for the first conference on youth work and racial justice.

£3m fund to place youth workers in more London police stations

News

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

| CYP Now

London’s violence reduction unit (VRU) has announced plans to double the number of specialist youth workers placed in the capital’s police stations.

Major improvements at Surrey youth offending service, inpectors find

News

Thursday, May 12, 2022

| CYP Now

Youth offending services in Surrey have been handed a rating of "good" by probation inspectors, just three years after being graded "inadequate".

England’s first secure school gains royal assent

News

Thursday, May 5, 2022

| CYP Now

The first secure school to open in England has been granted royal assent, following the passing of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.

Queen to honour youth organisations with new jubilee award

News

Thursday, May 5, 2022

| CYP Now

Twenty charities that support young people are set to be recognised by the Queen as part of her platinum jubilee celebrations.

Howard League calls for ban on welfare orders for children on remand

News

Thursday, May 5, 2022

| CYP Now

The Howard League for Penal Reform has called for a ban on the use of custodial remand for children’s welfare.

Police force launches trauma-informed care for children in custody

News

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

| CYP Now

Northamptonshire Police has overhauled how it deals with children in custody by focusing on helping them to tackle trauma in their lives.

Longfield commission sets out plan to end ‘perverse exclusion culture’

News

Friday, April 29, 2022

| CYP Now

Scrapping the term “pupil referral unit” and banning exclusions for young children are among plans laid out by the former children’s commissioner for England to tackle “exclusion culture” in schools.

Proposal to reopen Rainsbrook STC amid fears youth custody numbers will double by 2024

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Justice and the Prison and Probation Service have warned that the number of children in custody is expected to double by 2024, prompting ministers to consider reopening the controversial Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC).

Interview: Claudia Sturt, YJB chief executive

Analysis

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the chief executive of the YJB about her first year in the job.

Abandon plans for bill of rights, government urged

News

Monday, April 25, 2022

| CYP Now

A group of 30 children’s charities is calling on the government to scrap its plans to feature a controversial bill of rights in the upcoming Queen’s speech.

YJB to pilot supported accommodation scheme for children in custody

News

Monday, April 25, 2022

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is working with London councils to establish a specialist supported accommodation programme as an alternative to placing young people in custody unnecessarily.

Police force urged to improve access to accommodation for children kept in cells

News

Friday, April 22, 2022

| CYP Now

Inspectors have urged a police force to improve its work in finding alternative accommodation for children in custody after just one child was successfully placed last year.

Concern over decrease in child protection plans citing sexual abuse

News

Friday, April 22, 2022

| CYP Now

The proportion of child protection plans created by local authorities over concerns about child sexual abuse has decreased for the second year running, prompting concern from experts that cases are being missed.

Sharp increase in proportion of trafficked children missing from care

News

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

| CYP Now

The proportion of trafficked children who go missing from local authority care has increased by a quarter over two years, new research shows.

Greater understanding of child-to-parent abuse needed across London, Sadiq Khan warns

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

| CYP Now

School exclusions, undiagnosed mental health issues and unidentified special educational needs and disabilities are among the key drivers behind child-to-parent abuse, the mayor of London has said.

HMI Probation drops out of joint targeted area inspections

News

Friday, April 8, 2022

| CYP Now

HMI Probation will no longer take part in the joint targeted area inspections (JTAI) programme which monitors services for vulnerable children.

How school exclusions entrench child criminal exploitation

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Friday, April 8, 2022

| CYP Now

Experts have shared some of the reasons why excluding children from school can increase their risk of being exploited by criminals.

Education Secretary urged to protect excluded children from exploitation

News

Friday, April 8, 2022

| CYP Now

A coalition of children’s charities has called on the Education Secretary to better protect children facing school exclusion from child criminal exploitation.

Ukrainian refugees thank young people at Feltham YOI for messages of support

News

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

| CYP Now

Ukrainian refugees have thanked young people at a young offender’s institution (YOI) for sending messages of support amid the war with Russia.

Youth workers feel ‘professionally abandoned’, says director of London’s VRU

News

Friday, March 25, 2022

| CYP Now

A decade of cuts to youth services has left youth workers feeling “professionally abandoned and neglected”, according to the director of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).

‘Conflicting’ youth justice policies cause ‘chaos’ for staff, academic warns

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Friday, March 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Conflicting policies on supporting the welfare of children in the youth justice system and managing risk is causing “chaos and confusion” for professionals, new research warns.

Covid increases risk of criminalisation among vulnerable children, report warns

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

| CYP Now

The Covid-19 pandemic has “exacerbated vulnerabilities and inequalities” among disadvantaged children and increased the risk of them entering the criminal justice system, a report has found.

Make Oakhill review public to shape youth custody

Opinion

Thursday, March 24, 2022

| CYP Now

I met Chris in 2009. In his early 20s, Chris had been recruited to work at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Previously a youth worker, he said he surprised himself by his career move into youth custody.

Fury over placement of three girls at all-male YOI

News

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

| CYP Now

Children’s rights campaigners have criticised the “unacceptable” placement of three teenage girls in an all-male young offender institution (YOI) for several months.

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