Following the announcement last week that the YJB is one of 192 quangos to be abolished, concerns have been raised that this could lead to a shift away from the more child-centred approach to youth offending, adopted over the last decade.
Chris Stanley, former head of policy and research at crime reduction charity Nacro and a youth court magistrate in Kent, said the changes offer an opportunity to reform youth justice that should not be missed.
This should include shifting the responsibility for crime prevention from youth offending teams (YOTs) to local authority children's services departments and reconfiguring the secure estate to provide smaller units.
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