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System 'fails vulnerable children leaving custody'

News

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

| CYP Now

Vulnerable children are leaving custody without adequate support, the chief inspector of prisons has found.

Young offenders in Kent kept in their cells for 23 hours a day

News

Monday, June 13, 2011

| CYP Now

Young offenders in Kent are spending as many as 23 hours a day locked in their cells, an inspection report has found.

Children held on remand are to be classed as 'looked-after' by councils

News

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| CYP Now

All young people remanded in custody will have to be recognised as looked-after children by local authorities, under plans to reduce reoffending and shake up the justice system.

Youth custody 'unsafe' for half of boys

News

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Almost half of all boys held in young offender institutions (YOIs) feel "unsafe" in custody, the highest level recorded since the Prisons Inspectorate began recording views in 2001, a study has found.

Campaigners urge Labour to make age of criminal responsibility central to justice policy

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Raising the age of criminal responsibility and focusing more on early intervention at a local level should form the basis of Labour's new criminal justice policy, according to a campaign group.

Collaboration can prevent cock-ups

Opinion

Monday, September 20, 2010

| CYP Now

The botched handover of responsibility to local authorities for the education of young offenders is quite simply a fiasco.

Clarke warns of rise in youth crime as young people struggle to find work

News

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

| CYP Now

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has revealed more prison places could be required to deal with a possible increase in robberies and burglaries as a result of rising unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds.

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.

Strip-searching of young offenders is preferred search technique, finds YJB

News

Monday, February 14, 2011

| CYP Now

The controversial use of strip-searching in youth custody is set to continue after a review of the practice found that technological alternatives don't come up to scratch.

Speech therapists fear lack of offender support

Other

Monday, February 21, 2011

| CYP Now

Community healthcare trusts are being urged not to drop speech and language therapist services for young offenders after the first young offender institution (YOI) to introduce the provision has scrapped its only full-time post.

Revised assessment to offer comprehensive picture of young offender needs

News

Friday, November 11, 2011

| CYP Now

An assessment tool for young offenders that will forge closer links with health and children's services is set to be introduced to produce a fuller picture of the needs of children in the youth justice system.

YOI child-to-staff ratio to rise

News

Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Staff in some young offender institutions will have to oversee more young people under plans developed by the Prison Service, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

MoJ shelves plans to transfer custody budgets

News

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has no plans to devolve the cost of youth custody to local authorities once a high-profile pilot project finishes this year, it has emerged.

Youth reoffending rates on the rise

News

Friday, July 26, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of young people reoffending is rising, according to the latest government data.

Expert panel heralds 'promising' youth justice schemes

News

Thursday, August 8, 2013

| CYP Now

A new expert panel on youth justice has highlighted the effectiveness of three initiatives, paving the way for them to be used more widely by youth offending teams (YOTs) across England and Wales.

South coast council cuts youth justice entrants

News

Thursday, October 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Brighton & Hove City Council has cut by nearly a third the number of young people entering the youth justice system in its area over the past year.

Daily roundup: New role for ADCS president; support for young carers, and children's services in Salford

Other

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Debbie Jones appointed regional director for Ofsted, a call for more support for young carers, and Salford children's services department improves, all in the news today.

Ashfield YOI disciplinary process judged unlawful

News

Friday, March 8, 2013

| CYP Now

The High Court has criticised disciplinary procedures at a young offender institution after seven teenage inmates were unlawfully punished for protesting about conditions at the prison.

Inspectors call Werrington YOI 'shabby' and 'violent'

News

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

| CYP Now

HMYOI Werrington has come under fire from inspectors for dirty conditions, high levels of violence and having low expectations of its prisoners.

Councillors called on to visit young people in secure settings

News

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

| CYP Now

The children's commissioner for England has sent out a plea to local authority leaders to visit children and young people imprisoned as a result of rioting and looting this summer.

Many young rioters found to have special educational needs, analysis reveals

News

Monday, October 24, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people who got involved in August's riots were more likely to be poor and have special educational needs, government research on the unrest has revealed.

YJB faces further budget cuts

News

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is facing a 10 per cent cut to funding after it emerged the organisation will receive 365m from central government for the coming financial year.

Truss strips YJB of youth custody role

News

Friday, February 24, 2017

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) will no longer be responsible for commissioning and overseeing the youth secure estate, with a new body being established to take on the role, it has been announced.

Be bold and make youth custody education-focused

Opinion

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

| CYP Now

Justice Secretary Liz Truss has, in recent weeks, made a sweeping range of decisions in relation to the prison system.

YJB warns minister of serious incident risk

News

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Moves to relax national standards for youth offending teams could lead to serious incidents such as murders or rape as a result of looser supervision, the Youth Justice Board has warned.

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