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Ministers face criticism over lack of youth custody visits

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Department for Education ministers have failed to visit a single youth custody establishment in the past three years despite radical plans to replace them with education-focused "secure colleges", it has emerged.

Charities urge statutory family support for prisoners

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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).

Campaigners call for expansion of student councils in YOIs

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Student councils rather than the promise of privileges hold the key to boosting the education of young offenders, according to a prison education charity.

Feltham YOI gets 'worst in a decade' inspection reports

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Feltham YOI is blighted by extreme violence, gang culture and intimidation, according to two damning inspection reports.

Council budget cuts ‘put services at risk'

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Charities and councils have warned that children's services will be endangered by plans to cut local government budgets by 2.3 per cent between 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Youth custody ratio rationale comes under fire

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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.

Daily roundup: Free childcare, residential care, and youth unemployment

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Two-year-old childcare offer expansion in doubt, quarter of looked-after children are in lower-quality care homes, and the average under 30 will be unemployed for more than two years, all in the news today.

Trial to curb strip-searching in youth custody

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Compulsory strip-searching of under-18s arriving in custody is to be halted at a youth prison in a trial that could see the practice scrapped altogether.

Daily roundup: Play strategy, DCS to retire early, and genital mutilation

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Scotland gets its first national play strategy, Norfolk's children's services boss retires early, and the NSPCC opens a female genital mutilation helpline, all in the news today.

Legal aid changes could damage living conditions for young prisoners, YOTs warn

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

| CYP Now

It will be harder for young people held in youth prisons to challenge their treatment and living conditions if planned changes to legal aid are pushed through, youth offending team (YOT) managers have warned.

Royal colleges publish healthcare standards for young people in custody

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Monday, June 10, 2013

| CYP Now

A new set of UK-wide standards for the healthcare of children and young people in custody has been developed by a group of medical royal colleges.

Prisons inspectorate blasts Ashfield YOI for unacceptable levels of violence

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

| CYP Now

A young offender institution has "compromised the safety" of young people, with some suffering broken bones at the hands of staff, an official report says.

Number of first-time young offenders fell by a quarter in 2012

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of young people getting into trouble with the law for the first time is continuing to plummet, latest figures show.

YOTs urged to improve data sharing on imprisoned children

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) have been told to improve the way they share information on young people sentenced to custody to make services more efficient and safe.

Inspectors criticise Blackpool youth offending service

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| CYP Now

Blackpool's youth offending service has been told to improve after inspectors judged key areas of work including reoffending and child protection to be "unsatisfactory".

Hinnigan outlines revised guidance plans for YOTs

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

| CYP Now

Updated guidance on the shape and management of youth offending teams (YOTs) is to be issued in light of changes to how they are expected to work, the Youth Justice Board has confirmed.

Oakhill STC inspection raises safeguarding concerns

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

| CYP Now

A secure training centre has been praised for its work with young offenders but has been told to improve child protection procedures.

Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks'

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Girls with links to gangs are the most vulnerable group in the youth justice system, a study has found.

MoJ shelves plans to transfer custody budgets

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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.