How youth offending services can address over-representation of BAME young people in custody
Over-representation of black and minority ethnic (BAME)...
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CYP Now launches #Chances4Children campaign
- Youth Work | Social Care | Youth Justice | Children's Services | Early Years | Education | Coronavirus | Chances4Children | Guide To...
CYP Now is today launching its #Chances4Children campaign to...
Interview: Campbell Robb, Nacro chief executive
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth custody | Youth Offending Teams | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending | Interview
Derren Hayes speaks to the Nacro chief executive about...
Early Help: Special Report
- Early help | Social Care | Homelessness | Leaving care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Preventing Care Proceedings
Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care...
Youth justice - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide
- Courses and training | Youth Justice
Those wishing to work in youth justice have a number of...
Plan to return police to schools
- Youth Justice | Policing | Youth Offending
Experts assess whether revisiting proposals for police in...
Gangs and Criminal Exploitation: Special Report
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
A rise in gang violence and youth crime has prompted...
Guide helps staff support young people affected by bereavement
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Recent guidance aims to help youth justice practitioners to...
'More trusting, less prescriptive' - Taylor's new vision for the YJB
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Youth Justice Board chair Charlie Taylor says slimmed-down...
Summit offers solutions to youth violence
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
National knife crime summit offers the chance to extend the...
Medway STC whistleblower calls for culture and practice reforms
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Whistleblower who alerted authorities to abuse at Medway...
Councils develop programmes to reduce impact of parent conflict
- Youth Justice | Preventing Care Proceedings
Councils took part in a pilot to reduce parental conflict...
Factors behind rise in remand
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Lack of magistrates and secure children's homes to blame for...
Draft standards miss the mark
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Experts warn revised youth justice standards may reduce...
Secure schools: government looks to providers to deliver reforms
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
MoJ documents reveal details of how secure school will...
Special Report: Reducing Youth Reoffending
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Youth justice services have developed a range of innovative...
A public health approach to youth violence
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
With violent crime on the increase in England, Tom de...
Are children's home arrests a problem?
- Youth Justice | Residential Children's Care | Youth Offending
The Howard League for Penal Reform is concerned that...
Tougher inspections for STCs
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Youth justice experts back plans for increased monitoring by...
YOTs and universities link up
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Youth offending teams are creating partnerships with...
Clarity sought on secure schools
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Proposals over size, location and mixed gender populations...
Serious Violence Strategy: experts advocate earlier interventions
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Amid a rise in knife crime, new Serious Violence Strategy is...
Experts look to public health model to tackle surge in youth knife crime
- Health | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending
A public health approach to tackling violent crime has been...
PCCs and youth crime prevention
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Experts call for police and crime commissioners to do more...
Joining youth and family courts
- Family courts and Cafcass | Youth Justice | Courts and sentencing | Youth Offending
Experts assess the barriers to integrated youth and family...
Plan to tackle disproportionality
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Justice experts react to review recommendations on ways to...
Election 2017: Party Policy Guide
- Early Years | Education | Health | Child poverty | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Work
Neil Puffett has trawled the manifestos to provide the...
Tackling offender mental health
- Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending Teams | Mental Health
A MAC-UK scheme could point the way for supporting young...
Putting faith in values: Ross Hendry, chief executive, Spurgeons
- Early Years | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Faith-based | Interview
Derren Hayes speaks to Ross Hendry, chief executive of...
Transforming youth justice: Ross Little, chair, National Association of Youth Justice
- Youth Justice | Youth custody
Neil Puffett speaks to Ross Little, chair, National...
Links between SEND and offending
- Special Educational Needs | Youth Justice | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
High numbers of children with SEND enter the youth justice...
Early intervention leaders' debate
- Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Early help | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work
Children's services leaders from councils across England...
Review: Bringing the complexity of law to life
- Early Years | Social Care | Youth Justice | Legal
The Social Worker's Guide to Children and Families Law...
Rehabilitation inside
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Work
The effective rehabilitation of young people in custody is...
Rebel with a cause
- Early Years | Education | Management | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview
Lauren Higgs talks to David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's...
Careers: Youth offending team worker
- Careers | Youth Justice
The role of youth offending team workers is becoming...
Playing with Fire: Training for Those Working with Young People in Conflict (2nd edition)
Fiona Macbeth and Nic Fine, with Jo Broadwood, Carey Haslam...
ChildRIGHT: Strategy for reform of the secure estate
- Youth Justice | Youth custody | Legal
Elizabeth Yarrow, international researcher at Coram...
Assessment in Youth Justice
Kerry Baker, Gill Kelly and Bernadette Wilkinson; The Policy...
How to Help Children and Young People with Complex Behavioural Difficulties
Ted Cole and Barbara Knowles; Jessica Kingsley Publishers;...
Interview: Evan Jones, head of community services, St Giles Trust
- Youth Justice | Interview
Evan Jones is well aware of the current spotlight on his...
Interview: Mark Johnson, founder, User Voice
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth custody | Interview
Mark Johnson is waging a war on interfering middlemen. He's...
Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary
- Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview
Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips...
Are You Okay? A Practical Guide to Helping Young Victims of Crime
Pete Wallis; Jessica Kingsley Publishers; ISBN...
Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer
- Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview
Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was...
Interview: Kit Malthouse, member, London Crime Reduction Board
- Youth Justice | Interview
Since 2008 when 30 young people were killed in knife attacks...
Youth Offending and Youth Justice
Edited by Monica Barry and Fergus McNeill; Jessica Kingsley...
Good Practice
NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to...
MultifunC, Scandinavia: International Focus
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Youth Offending
MultifunC has had impressive results in Denmark, Sweden and...
Youth workers tackle knife crime in Northampton
- Youth Work | Participation | Youth Justice | Crime prevention
Forty-eight-week programme supports young people at risk of...
Leading the fight against county lines gangs in Kent
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Charity supports local young people recruited to sell drugs...
HITZ teaches young people the values of resilience
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Uses core values of rugby to engage vulnerable and high-risk...
Mediation helps Bengali young people leave gangs behind
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Works with vulnerable young people in predominantly Bengali...
Services collaborate to tackle CCE in South Yorkshire
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Multi-agency hub established to co-ordinate sub-regional...
Diverting young people from custody in London
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Diversion scheme engages young people when they enter...
Supporting siblings of young offenders in Derby
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
"Good"-rated youth offending service in Derby works with...
Using Zorb football to engage Doncaster communities
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Zorb football is used to engage young people and reduce high...
Boosting the work skills of prolific young offenders
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
The Skill Mill provides employment in environmental work for...
How drama therapy tackles trauma
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Programme reduces reoffending by addressing the needs of...
International Focus: Community youth courts, New Zealand
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Rangatahi Courts, Nga Koti Rangatahi, are a community-based...
How enterprise turns offenders from crime
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Learning practical phone repair skills is helping young...
Tackling youth offending in Spain
Spain has a markedly different attitude to crime committed...
Just Health
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Participation | Youth Offending
Consultation gathered young people's views on what needs to...
Malachi Community Trust
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Crime prevention | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending
Programme for schools to identify children with troubling...
Sutton Youth Offending Team
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Crime prevention | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending
How the team uses referral orders to help young people stop...
How charity helps vulnerable young people move to independence
- Youth Justice | Leaving Care
The Future 4 Me project supports young people making the...
How positive expectations cut young people's offending behaviour
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Work
Sports programme leads to drop in antisocial behaviour and...
How urban art cuts antisocial conduct
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Work
Art project reduces antisocial behaviour while promoting...
Skills for the Job: De-escalating a confrontation
- Careers | Education | Children's Services | Youth Justice | Youth Work
Having a range of communication skills can help children's...
Ask the Expert: Bad staff attitudes
- Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work
Good Idea: Nail bar leads creative ways to help reduce violent crime
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Work
London charity has developed four programmes to tackle...
How early action in Glasgow is driving down crime
An intervention project has played a central role in...
How a nationwide project is helping young offenders to stand up for their legal rights
The UR Boss initiative works to make sure young offenders...
Good Practice: How a safe haven project is reducing violent crime in Liverpool
The CitySafe Havens initiative has reduced violent crime in...
Good Practice: How interventions are curbing antisocial behaviour in Brighton and Hove
- Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Youth Justice
Intensive work with both families and their social workers...
Good Practice: How ex-offenders are helping to steer young people away from crime in London
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention
The Foundation 4 Life is using the real-life experiences of...
Good Practice: Hailed US communities scheme in UK trials
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Work
Catch22 is to pursue the Communities That Care scheme in...
Good Practice: How a cycle scheme is helping young offenders to give back
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice
The Cycloan initiative has contributed to an overall...
Good Practice: How a secure unit in Nottinghamshire used graffiti to improve the wellbeing of young people in its care
The Creative Partnerships project has helped young people at...
Good Practice: Young offenders in Kent
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation
Young offenders get resettlement support
Research
‘It’s a no-win scenario, either the police or a gang will get you’ Young People and Organised Crime – Vulnerable or Criminal?
- Youth Work | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Policing | Youth Offending
Much of recent media coverage concerning young people has...
Towards a Contextual Response to Peer-on-Peer Abuse: Research and Resources From MsUnderstood Local Site Work 2013-2016
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This report presents findings and resources from a...
That Difficult Age: Developing a More Effective Response to Risks in Adolescence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Drawing on evidence from research and practice, this paper...
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves For Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This paper explores the practice of moving children out of...
Keeping Kids Safe: Improving Safeguarding Responses to Gang Violence and Criminal Exploitation
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This report by the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne...
Desistance Approaches in Youth Justice - the Next Passing Fad or a Sea-change for the Positive?
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
This research examines how well the strengths-based...
Contested Vulnerability: A Case Study of Girls in Secure Care
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
This ethnographic study in a secure unit in England explored...
Implementing Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents and Think Trauma for Traumatized Youth in Secure Juvenile Justice Settings
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
This study investigates the impact of implementing trauma...
Ecological Youth Justice: Understanding the Social Ecology of Young People's Prolific Offending
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
This study considers the work of youth offending teams (YOT)...
Preventing Youth Offending: Research evidence
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Crime prevention | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth custody | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending
Four studies on: Learning disability nursing; Risk,...
Long-Term Recidivism Risk of Young Sexual Offenders in England and Wales
- Youth Justice | Courts and sentencing | Crime prevention | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
How the risks posed by juvenile sex offenders change over...
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