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One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime

Thursday, January 31, 2019

| CYP Now

Some children may be unnecessarily ending up with a criminal record because not all youth offending teams (YOTs) are offering diversion schemes, research suggests.

Call for urgent review of video links for child defendants

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

| CYP Now

The increasing use of video links for court cases involving children could be affecting the chances of them getting a fair trial and should be urgently reviewed, children's charities and youth justice campaigners have said.

Child arrests fall but violence in custody rises

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of under-18s being arrested is continuing to fall, but levels of violence and self-harm in youth custody are on the rise, government figures show.

Government minister appointed to lead Youth Justice Board

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Government minister Lord McNally has been appointed as the new chair of the Youth Justice Board, it has been announced.

Bid to increase age of criminal responsibility dismissed by government

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Government has rejected calls by leading children's charities for the age of criminal responsibility to be increased.

YJB moves to tackle minority ethnic over-representation in youth justice system

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Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Youth justice chiefs are bidding to attract more people from black and ethnic minority communities to work within the system as part of efforts to tackle disproportionality.

Non-white children more likely to face custody for knife possession

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Black, Asian and ethnic minority children are more likely to be sent to custody for knife possession than white children, new figures have shown.

NCS under consideration as 'intervention' for young offenders

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| CYP Now

The government's flagship National Citizens Service (NCS) has been mooted as a way of getting young offenders back on track, CYP Now can reveal.??

Police and crime commissioner to take over youth offending service

News

Friday, November 6, 2015

| CYP Now

One of the largest youth offending services in the country is set to be handed over to a police and crime commissioner in the first arrangement of its kind.

Youth offending team inspections suspended as YJB confirms £9m cuts

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Inspections of local authority youth offending teams (YOTs) will be suspended for a period as part of efforts to help them cope with £9m of in-year cuts that have been rubber-stamped by the Youth Justice Board.

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces should only attend children's homes to tackle extreme incidents of young people's behaviour, the country's top police officer for children's issues has said.

Place young offenders in small units, children's commissioner urges

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Large children's prisons should be scrapped and replaced with smaller secure units in order to improve access to education and rehabilitation, the children's commissioner for England has said.

One in three young people in custody are in care system

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Friday, October 2, 2015

| CYP Now

More than a third of under-18s in young offender institutions (YOI) are in the care system, it has emerged.

Independent trust's youth offending work deemed 'unsatisfactory'

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The first independent trust to be established by government to take on failing children's services has been told to improve its youth offending services after inspectors judged several areas of its work "unsatisfactory".

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to make emergency in-year cuts of £13.5m to youth justice work have been blasted by children's services chiefs and youth justice managers.

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One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime

Call for urgent review of video links for child defendants

Child arrests fall but violence in custody rises

Government minister appointed to lead Youth Justice Board

Bid to increase age of criminal responsibility dismissed by government

YJB moves to tackle minority ethnic over-representation in youth justice system

Non-white children more likely to face custody for knife possession

NCS under consideration as 'intervention' for young offenders

Police and crime commissioner to take over youth offending service

Youth offending team inspections suspended as YJB confirms £9m cuts

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

Place young offenders in small units, children's commissioner urges

One in three young people in custody are in care system

Independent trust's youth offending work deemed 'unsatisfactory'

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

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