The independent review Safeguarding the Future: A Review of the Youth Justice Board's Governance and Operating Arrangements, makes a total of 23 recommendations for how the Youth Justice Board should be run in the future.
These include publicising the role of the YJB to increase public confidence, using legal powers to hold local authorities and providers of community and custodial sentences to account, and introducing joint inspections of secure training centres and young offender institutions by the Prisons Inspectorate and Ofsted.
The review, announced last September, was carried out by Dame Sue Street alongside YJB chair Frances Done. Street has given each recommendation a timeframe based on whether it can be achieved immediately, in the medium-term (three to six months) or the longer term (within two years).
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