Research released today (7 November) by the JustRights coalition identifies links between young people’s civil justice problems and crime.
It found that young victims of crime and young people at risk of offending are likely to be disproportionately hit by cuts to advice services.
The research revealed that as many as 55 per cent of young people who had recently been arrested and 63 per cent of young victims of crime had also experienced a civil justice problem.
Government figures, revealed after a Freedom of Information request, show that the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill, due to enter the House of Lords later this month, will lead to 75,000 children and young people losing entitlement to civil legal aid each year.
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