In May, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published Ten Years of Labour's Youth Justice Reforms: An Independent Audit. It concluded that despite record levels of spending on youth justice, no significant reduction in crime has been made, and suggested it may be time reconsider the future of the present youth justice system (CYP Now 21-27 May).
Done wrote to Richard Garside, director of the CCJS, on 26 June to express her concern over the fact that Garside’s report does not offer a fair representation of the achievements, and the challenges, of the past decade.
She said that as the report focuses on what has not been achieved, it does not consider what progress has been made.
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