The Prison Reform Trust launched the Out of Trouble campaign in 2007 with £1.5m in funding from The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which itself closes in December.
The campaign has worked to highlight issues around child imprisonment at both national and local levels, collecting and publishing evidence on inappropriate imprisonment, lobbying government for changes to the law and influencing agencies in the youth justice system.
Penelope Gibbs, director of the Out of Trouble programme, said the trust would continue to keep a “watching brief” on youth custody, but the area will no longer form part of the charity’s core work.
“The youth custody population has gone down significantly in the past five years and with the legislative changes to remand, it could potentially go down more,” she said.
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