The National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) has today (24 February) launched its Trouble with the Law campaign and is urging all candidates to recognise and support care-experienced children and young people.
Latest figures from the Youth Justice Board (YJB) show that care-experienced children make up half of those placed in youth custody.
Meanwhile, children in care in England are six times more likely than other young people to be cautioned or convicted of a crime.
NYAS’s new campaign highlights how care-experienced young people are often overlooked in local police and crime plans.
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