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

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.

Commons committee votes to proceed with abolition of YJB

News

Friday, September 16, 2011

| CYP Now

Hopes that the Youth Justice Board will avoid the axe have been dealt a blow after a group of MPs voted to proceed with its abolition.

Young people leave custody 'without NI numbers'

News

Friday, September 23, 2011

| CYP Now

Children and young adults are leaving custody without being issued a National Insurance number, hampering their chances of successful resettlement, it has been claimed.

Teenager found dead at Essex YOI

News

Thursday, July 7, 2011

| CYP Now

A teenager has been found dead at a young offender institution (YOI) in Essex, CYP Now has learned.

Youth prisons have capacity to cope with rise in remands after riots, confirms YJB chief

News

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth jails have more than enough capacity to deal with an expected surge in demand as a result of riots breaking out across England, the head of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said.

Landmark payment-by-results project to launch for young offenders

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Payment-by-results will be used as part of a major five-year programme to improve resettlement support for young people leaving custody, it has been confirmed.

Further fall in number of first-time young offenders

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of young people convicted for an offence for the first time is continuing to fall, latest Ministry of Justice figures have revealed.

Charity calls for better resettlement planning in custody

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

| CYP Now

There needs to be an overhaul of resettlement support for those leaving youth custody if high reoffending rates are to be reduced, crime reduction charity Nacro has said.

Youth offending team inspections suspended as YJB confirms £9m cuts

News

Thursday, November 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Inspections of local authority youth offending teams (YOTs) will be suspended for a period as part of efforts to help them cope with £9m of in-year cuts that have been rubber-stamped by the Youth Justice Board.

Nightingale courts not enough to reduce number of child prisoners, say experts

Analysis

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| CYP Now

“I am going to be on remand for one year…the delay in my case has been the worst effect of coronavirus,” one child told HM Inspectorate of Prisons amid calls for the government to reduce a huge backlog of trials for both crown and youth courts.

Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts are warning that girls in the youth secure estate are facing high levels of mental health problems and are at an increased risk of self-harm.

Custody staff need crisis communication training

Opinion

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

The Independent review of the use of pain-inducing techniques – published over the summer – in short hasn’t told us anything we didn’t know before and the heart of the recommendations are simply echoes of previous reports that still haven’t been enacted.

Lords vote to save Youth Justice Board

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has been dealt a blow over plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board after the House of Lords passed an amendment that the organisation should be retained.

MPs set out conditions for transfer of youth justice responsibilities

News

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

| CYP Now

A report by the justice select committee on the proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board has called for certain conditions to be followed if functions are taken over by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

YOIs must act as a deterrent, says Brooke Kinsella

News

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Young offender institutions must become places of punishment rather than "holiday camps" in order to tackle knife crime, ex-EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella has said.

Poverty central to the summer riots, young people claim

News

Monday, December 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people believe that poverty was one of the key reasons behind the August riots, a survey by The Children's Society has found.

Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify

Opinion

Monday, October 18, 2010

| CYP Now

The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.

Prisons inspectorate blasts Ashfield YOI for unacceptable levels of violence

News

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.

Trial to curb strip-searching in youth custody

News

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: 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.

Ofsted skills director calls for better offender education

News

Thursday, October 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted has called for major improvements to the way young offenders and prisoners are educated.

Inspectors praise CPS progress on handling youth cases

News

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

| CYP Now

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is improving how it deals with cases involving under-18s, inspectors have found.

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

News

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.

Birmingham quits devolved youth custody budget scheme

News

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.

Youth custody education ‘must be expanded'

News

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.

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