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Commissioner backs mentors for young offenders

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

All young offenders should have access to an adult mentor, a report by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People has claimed.

Rise in youth custody safety concerns

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Young people feel less safe in youth prisons despite a large drop in the number of under-18s being detained, a report has found.

Daily roundup: Rochdale resignation, the Scout Promise, and Bristol young offenders in judicial review

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

| CYP Now

The chair of Rochdale's safeguarding children board resigns, an alternative Scout pledge is considered for atheists, and a legal hearing into the punishment of young offenders in Bristol, all in the news today.

Youth custody units ‘must be smaller' to tackle violence

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

| CYP Now

A campaign group is calling for youth custody units to be reduced in size, amid concerns about gang-related violence in youth prisons.

Lin Hinnigan named as YJB chief executive

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Monday, December 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A former social worker and educational psychologist has been selected as the new chief executive of the Youth Justice Board, it has been announced.

Plan to increase specialist help for the most troubled young offenders

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Monday, November 26, 2012

| CYP Now

A scheme to support the most vulnerable young offenders in the youth secure estate is to be expanded across the country, in an attempt to reduce violence and self-harm in custody.

Youth custody education ‘must be expanded'

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

| CYP Now

Plans to improve education for young offenders in custody must focus on increasing existing provision and offering more opportunities for higher-level qualifications, a charity has said.

GCSE passes of young offenders plummets

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Friday, November 16, 2012

| CYP Now

The number of GCSE passes achieved by young people in custody has fallen by nearly half, prompting concerns over the quality of education provision.

Call for YJB to address lack of ‘fear response' among young offenders

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

New ways of dealing with young offenders with mental impairments must be devised in light of emerging evidence on the issue, a former member of the Youth Justice Board has said.

Young offender dog training scheme to go nationwide

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

| CYP Now

A community sentencing scheme that involves young offenders training dogs is to be expanded nationwide as part of attempts to provide alternatives to custody.

Prisons inspector finds little progress on youth custody resettlement

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Little progress has been made on improving resettlement support for young offenders leaving custody since a critical report last year, a group of MPs has been told.

Delays and funding cuts blight young offender resettlement project

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

| CYP Now

A replacement for a controversial resettlement scheme for young offenders in London has been delayed and is facing a reduction in funding, CYP Now has learned.

Nacro urges preventative work to divert young people from gangs

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

| CYP Now

More focus must be placed on diverting young people from antisocial behaviour at an earlier stage, in order to tackle the problem of gangs, a crime reduction charity has said.

Birmingham quits devolved youth custody budget scheme

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Birmingham is pulling out of a scheme to devolve the cost of youth custody to local authorities, CYP Now can reveal.

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people who have died in custody in recent years haven been let down by "systemic failures", a study has found.

Daily roundup: Early intervention funding, UK Youth Parliament, and the age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association calls on government to rethink plan to "top-slice" early intervention cash, 250,000 young people vote in a UKYP consultation, and the Northern Irish justice minister advocates increasing the age of criminal responsibility, all in the news today.

Consortium considers ditching landmark scheme to devolve the cost of custody

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

At least one area trialling a pioneering project to hand youth custody budgets to local authorities is considering pulling out of the scheme, CYP Now has learned.

Government warned against using payment-by-results in youth justice

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has been warned that payment-by-results in the youth justice system could have a negative impact on young offenders, after Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to extend use of the concept.

Juvenile gang injunctions used just once in 10 months

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Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Controversial gang injunction powers for under-18s have been used just once since being introduced 10 months ago, it has emerged.

Vox Pop: Should national youth custody standards be relaxed?

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Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board is set to trial new national standards for working with under-18s in custody

Young offender transitions must improve, inspectors say

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

| CYP Now

The way young offenders are moved from the juvenile to adult justice system must be improved in custody and the community, inspectors have found.

Review of youth custody standards announced

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

| CYP Now

Guidelines for how staff should work with young offenders in custody are set to be relaxed in a bid to improve practice, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has announced.

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

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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 custody places to be reduced further

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has announced plans to further reduce the number of places in youth custody, as the population of under-18s in the secure estate continues to fall.