Interview: Amani Simpson, filmmaker and youth crime campaigner
- Youth Work | Interview | Youth Offending
Emily Harle speaks to the award-winning filmmaker and youth...
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Inspections clinic: Youth justice services
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending | Ofsted
While a new report shows that more young offenders are now...
Interview: Maureen McKenna, education expert advising London’s VRU
- Education | Crime prevention | Youth Offending | Interview
Fiona Simpson speaks to the education expert on her role...
Special Report: Resettlement of Children
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
Youth offending teams and local authorities are working...
Inspections Clinic: Prisoners with restricted status
- Children's Services | Children's rights | Youth Justice | Youth custody | Youth Offending
Young prisoners who have committed the most serious crimes...
Inspections Clinic: 10 key questions on STC assurance visits
- Youth Justice | Ofsted | Youth Offending
Ofsted's Yvette Stanley answers 10 key questions from Jo...
Youth Offending Special Report
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Levels of offending by young people have fallen sharply...
Inspections Clinic: Youth offending services
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending | Ofsted
Latest probation inspectorate annual report highlights...
Inspections Clinic: Tackling disproportionality
- Youth Justice | Inspections | Youth Offending
Inspectors now assess how youth offending services promote...
Tackling Youth Violence: Special Report
- Youth Offending | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending Teams
Despite a recent fall in knife-related assaults, there are...
FoI probe reveals reluctance of YOTs to use weapons detectors
- Youth Offending | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending Teams
CYP Now investigation shows just 30 per cent of councils...
Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency working
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending | Ofsted
A review of multi-agency working in response to youth...
A decade on from the summer riots
- Youth Work | Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending
It is 10 years since England was rocked by rioting and...
Secure children’s homes: Inspections Clinic
- Youth custody | Youth Justice | Ofsted | Youth Offending
Secure children’s homes cater for some of the most...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
Youth offending services: Inspections Clinic
- Youth Offending | Ofsted | Youth Justice | Youth custody | Youth Offending Teams
Recent assessment of youth offending services shows more...
How schemes divert young people in London from formal justice system
- Youth Justice | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending
Youth diversion schemes offering an alternative to formal...
Youth Justice: Special Report
- Youth Justice | Youth custody | Youth Offending Teams | Community sentencing and restorative justice | Youth Offending
Against a background of continuing wide-ranging reforms of...
Children’s home staff and agencies take restorative approach to cut offending
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Youth Offending
Multi-agency scheme diverts children’s home residents in...
Twenty years of youth offending teams
- Youth Offending | Youth Justice | Youth Offending Teams
This year, youth offending teams (YOTs) turned 20. Here,...
Interview: Justin Russell, HM chief inspector, Probation Service
- Youth Offending | Interview
Derren Hayes talks to probation chief about standards of...
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...
National system for post-custody housing
- Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
Amid concerns over the quality of support young offenders...
Trauma-Informed Practice: Special Report
- Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Experiencing traumatic events can have a lasting negative...
Schools and knife crime: Inspections Clinic
Rising levels of youth violence have shone a light on what...
Plan to return police to schools
- Youth Justice | Policing | Youth Offending
Experts assess whether revisiting proposals for police in...
Restorative justice use in school
- Education | Youth Offending
A school's use of "restorative justice" to address a pupil's...
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...
Unlocked Graduates: the graduates hoping to transform youth custody
- Youth custody | Youth Offending
Unlocked Graduates is a training scheme designed to get more...
Partnerships to address violent crime
- Youth Work | Youth Offending
Youth charity supports government strategy's focus on...
Medway STC whistleblower calls for culture and practice reforms
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Whistleblower who alerted authorities to abuse at Medway...
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...
Boosting YOI classroom time
- Youth custody | Youth Offending
Experts call for changes to education provision in youth...
PCCs put focus on young adults
- Crime prevention | Youth Offending
Police and crime commissioners are developing fresh ways to...
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...
Police academy: how forces are on the front line of early intervention
- Crime prevention | Youth Offending
Lancashire and Northamptonshire police are involved in a...
Good Practice
Disadvantaged young people gain cybersecurity know how
- Careers Guidance | Education | Youth Offending
The Regional Cyber Crime Unit Prevent Team for West Midlands...
Young people gain skills to leave crime behind
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
Scheme targets young offenders most at risk of going into...
Partnership offers alternative to custody in London
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
The London Accommodation Pathfinder takes an innovative...
Catch22 helps young people get on right road
- Youth Offending | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation
Not-for-profit organisation delivers discussion-based...
Youth offending teams put effective resettlement policies into action
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
A recently published HM Inspectorate of Probation guide...
Young people draw on their personal experiences to change justice system
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Work | Participation | Youth Offending
Charity gives young people with experience of the justice...
Leicestershire charity supports young adults to turn their backs on a life of violence
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Charity works with young people to access work and learning...
Psychologists help youth club support young men affected by offending
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Trained psychologists were based at a youth club in Haringey...
How I Got Here: Sophie Charles
- Youth Justice | Youth Work | Youth Offending
Senior youth work co-ordinator at Kinetic Youth Sophie...
Youth work stops online aggression becoming real violence
- Youth Offending | Youth Justice | Crime prevention
Youth charities train practitioners to recognise risk...
Health services and police use school workshop to highlight risks of violence
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending
A film made by young people explains to schoolchildren the...
Taking teachable moments to cut risk of violence
- Youth Work | Youth Offending
Hospital-based youth workers use the immediate aftermath of...
Working with girls in gangs, US
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending
Samantha Jury-Dada visited the United States in 2018 to...
Leap turns to young people with lived experience to shape future priorities
- Participation | Youth Offending | Mental Health
Leap Confronting Conflict (Leap) co-ordinated three separate...
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...
Project unpicks the trauma of care to address offending
- Youth Offending | Mental Health
Experience of both care and custody is not unusual -...
Peacemakers, Kenya: International Focus
- Youth Offending
Peacemakers is a global concept and movement which advocates...
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...
Integrated gangs unit
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
London council's gangs unit brings police and children's...
Pan-Merseyside integrated child exploitation service
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Initiative works with police and safeguarding agencies to...
International Focus: Community youth courts, New Zealand
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Rangatahi Courts, Nga Koti Rangatahi, are a community-based...
Luton Prevent programme
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Council taken the lead on supporting children and families...
I Define Me
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Specialist service in two London hospitals support girls and...
Lancashire vulnerability hub
- Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Multi-agency hub works with vulnerable young people in...
Kinetic Youth
- Youth Work | Youth Offending
Youth work at Werrington YOI praised for promoting boys'...
How enterprise turns offenders from crime
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Learning practical phone repair skills is helping young...
Children's Social Care Innovation Programme: Support for complex adolescents
- Families/Parenting | Mentoring | Youth Offending
Projects in the first phase of the DfE's Children's Social...
Police and young Cumbrians work together to tackle youth crime issues
- Crime prevention | Participation | Youth Offending
Police leaders in Cumbria have created a platform for local...
Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Teenagers
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Offending
The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...
Bristol Reparation Service
- Community sentencing and restorative justice | Youth Offending
Project run by Catch 22 for Bristol Youth Offending Team...
Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Harmful sexual behaviour
- Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Offending
The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...
Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Police and law enforcement
- Safeguarding and child protection | Policing | Youth Offending
The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...
Just Health
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Participation | Youth Offending
Consultation gathered young people's views on what needs to...
Action for Children - Multisystemic therapy, Manchester
- Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Youth Offending | Preventing Care Proceedings
Intensive, home-based programme supporting young people on...
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...
Research
AssetPlus Outcome Evaluation
- Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending
AssetPlus is the Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) assessment and...
Tackling youth violence: research evidence
- Youth Justice | Crime prevention | Youth Offending Teams | Youth Offending
Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit,...
Substance Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Adolescence
- Health | Drugs and alcohol | Youth Offending
Researchers from University College London’s Centre for...
Living Through a Lockdown: Reflections and Recommendations from Young People at Risk of Serious Violence
- Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Standing Committee for Youth Justice members Street Doctors,...
‘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...
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...
Ending the Criminalisation of Children in Residential Care - Good Practice in Children's Homes
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care | Youth Offending
Over the last two years, Howard League has conducted...
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)...
Working with Prevent: Social Work Options for Cases of 'Radicalisation Risk
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
The 2015 Prevent duty mandates social workers and other...
'Going Viral' and 'Going Country' the Expressive and Instrumental Activities of Street Gangs on Social Media
- Social Care | Youth Offending | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
This study considers the role of the internet in gang...
Research Report: Patterns of Offending Behaviour in Relation to Time Spent In and Out of Care
- Social Care | Youth Offending
Looked-after children are more likely to have an official...
Service users as the key to service change? The development of an innovative intervention for excluded young people
- Participation | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Young people affected by street gangs and those at risk of...
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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