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Commissioner recommends smaller secure units for children

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

| CYP Now

Children in custody should be kept in small units with sufficient trained staff to meet their mental health and emotional needs, a report by the children's commissioner has recommended.

YJB urged to boost evidence base for programmes with young offenders

News

Thursday, December 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOT) and secure estate providers have asked the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to support improvements in the way interventions with young people are measured.

The Youth Justice Board: 1999-2011

Other

Monday, October 18, 2010

| CYP Now

Somewhere in the archives of early 21st-century British social policy, there may be a dusty volume that records the fact that I was the only person who served under all five chairs of the Youth Justice Board - the supremely confident and connected Norman Warner, interim chair and passionate advocate of restorative justice Charles Pollard, the intellectually unsurpassable Rod Morgan, the pragmatic and effective Graham Robb (another interim chair), and the cautious but industrious Frances Done.

Stoke Heath YOI tipped for closure

News

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

| CYP Now

A young offender institution in Shropshire is to close as part of money-saving measures.

YOTs gear up for introduction of gang injunctions

News

Thursday, January 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams are to receive training to prepare them for the introduction of controversial gang injunctions for children.

Transforming youth justice: Ross Little, chair, National Association of Youth Justice

Features

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Neil Puffett speaks to Ross Little, chair, National Association of Youth Justice.

Ofsted lauds improvements at Hassockfield

News

Monday, January 23, 2012

| CYP Now

Ofsted inspectors have praised Hassockfield Secure Training Centre six months on from a critical report that branded the Serco-run centre as inadequate.

Charity calls for retention of secure schools proposals

News

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

| CYP Now

A prisoners' education charity is urging the government to push ahead with plans to create secure schools for young offenders, amid speculation the initiative is on the verge of being dropped.

Deerbolt YOI told to improve despite overall good outcomes

News

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

| CYP Now

A young offender institution (YOI) in the North East has been commended for sustaining good outcomes for inmates, but has also received criticism for levels of violence and restricted access to educational opportunities.

Youth Justice Board chair to lead review into pain-inducing restraint

News

Friday, October 19, 2018

| CYP Now

The government has appointed Youth Justice Board (YJB) chair Charlie Taylor to lead a review into the use of pain-inducing restraint on young offenders.

Youth custody ratio rationale comes under fire

News

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Justice has admitted that it does not know how many staff work with young people in individual youth prisons, despite introducing a controversial new minimum staffing level.

Charities urge statutory family support for prisoners

News

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

| CYP Now

A group of charities has joined forces to campaign for family support services to be made statutory in prisons and young offender institutions (YOIs).

Call to create secure training centres complaints system

News

Thursday, August 22, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has been called on to introduce an independent complaints process for children in secure training centres (STCs), or face legal action.

YOI and offender service face criticism over investigations into use of force

News

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

| CYP Now

A young offender institution and government agency have been strongly criticised by the prisons watchdog amid allegations that a restraint incident that left a young offender with a broken bone was "covered up".

Huge drop in restraint attributed to restorative justice

News

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

| CYP Now

A secure children's home in Devon has been recognised for its successful use of restorative justice after restraint incidents fell by nearly 90 per cent.

Daily roundup: Further education cuts, tax credits and drugs statistics

Other

Thursday, July 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Course closures and falling rolls in colleges, the link between welfare cuts and the economic crisis and drug use among school pupils, all in the news today.

Fears over young offenders held in adult prisons

News

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Increasing numbers of young offenders are being held in adult prisons with wings or single cells being "re-designated" as young offender institutions, it has been claimed.

Daily round up: College of Social Work row, competitive sports and the link between weight gain and psychosis

Other

Monday, October 1, 2012

| CYP Now

The row over the future of social work representation re-ignites, a report calls for less emphasis on competitive sports, and tackling obesity among young people with mental illness, all in the news today.

Youth justice roundup

News

Thursday, April 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Smartphone warning, youth offending project saved, but gangs initiative to close, all in the news this week.

Fresh review of YJB announced

News

Thursday, January 10, 2013

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is to be reviewed for the third time in as many years, the government has announced.

Ashfield YOI to close in response to falling custody levels

News

Thursday, January 10, 2013

| CYP Now

A controversial privately run young offender institution is to stop holding under-18s as part of a prison estate shake-up announced by the Ministry of Justice today.

Government admits placing young offenders in adult jails

News

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has been accused of breaking an international treaty on children's rights after it emerged that young offenders are being transferred from youth custody to adult prisons.

Minister refuses to rule out extension of YJB's remit

News

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

| CYP Now

A government minister has revealed that the extension of the Youth Justice Board's (YJB's) remit to cover 18- to 21-year-olds is being kept "under review".

Call for secure training centre consultation to be ditched

News

Friday, June 29, 2012

| CYP Now

A campaigning charity has called for a consultation on the future of secure training centre (STC) inspections to be abandoned, labelling the process as "flimsy" and "poorly considered".

Councils to get greater say on conditions in young offender institutions

News

Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

A body will be established to give local authorities a say over conditions and programmes in young offender institutions and secure training centres, under moves to devolve the cost of custody.

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