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Campaign to improve mental health support for young black men in prisons

Friday, October 8, 2021

| CYP Now

More than a third of UK adults think mental health support offered to young black men in prisons is not effective in preventing reoffending, research by a prisons charity shows.

Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts are warning that girls in the youth secure estate are facing high levels of mental health problems and are at an increased risk of self-harm.

Children's mental health services 'turning away cannabis-related cases'

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people with mental health issues linked to cannabis use are being turned away from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), a report has suggested.

Spit hood use on children more than doubles

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

| CYP Now

Instances of the controversial practice of police using spit hoods on children have risen dramatically this year, according to figures obtained by the Children's Rights Alliance for England (Crae).

More than a third of young people 'living in fear of crime'

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Fear of being a victim of crime is currently the biggest concern for young people, a major survey has found.

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

| CYP Now

The government does not know how many children are vulnerable and agencies cannot agree on how to define and identify them, children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned.

YJB convention: Minister outlines mental health and sport focus

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Greater emphasis must be placed on addressing the mental health needs of young offenders and expanding the provision of sport in youth custody, the minister responsible for youth justice has said.

Minister outlines £24m young offender mental health programme

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Details have emerged of a joint youth justice and health initiative to boost mental health services for young people in trouble with the law.

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.

Sector skills organisations announce merger

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Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

The two sector skills councils covering children's professions across health and justice are to merge.

Public services should be 'preventer of problems' say early help experts

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Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

A group of political analysts, including a former adviser to David Cameron, is calling on the next government to prioritise early intervention as a matter of urgency.

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

| CYP Now

A teenage young offender found hanged in his cell was let down by the "collective corporate system", according to a damning serious case review (SCR) into his death.

Campaigners call for system overhaul to tackle custody deaths

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Monday, March 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Many of the 65 young people who died in custody in England and Wales over the past four years had a history of mental health problems or had been in care, analysis has revealed.

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers should receive basic mental health training as part of a shake-up of services in order to support young people in gangs, MPs have been told.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Labour Party Conference: Shadow justice secretary backs support for children of prisoners

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Monday, September 22, 2014

| CYP Now

A Labour government will work to ascertain how many children have a parent in prison, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan has pledged.

Prison ombudsman urges greater support for family contact

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Prisons must do more to facilitate family contact where appropriate, the prison and probation ombudsman for England and Wales has said.

Gyimah handed role to strengthen children's mental health services

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Friday, August 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has been handed responsibility for strengthening Department for Education links with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A panel of criminal justice and mental health experts has called for greater scrutiny into how liaison and diversion services for young people are being implemented across England.

Youth justice objectives to be central to Neet reduction drive

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Gang members, young offenders, drug users and persistent truants will be among those targeted as part of a government initiative aimed at reducing the number of those not in education, employment or training (Neet).

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Public sector payment methods that link funding to performance outcomes are putting off many charities from bidding to deliver government programmes, research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has found.

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has issued updated advice on crisis mental health care that states police cells should never be used to hold children and young people.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

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Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Mental health service deficiencies ‘undermine penal support pilot'

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Mental health and penal reform campaigners are concerned a government scheme that will see mental health professionals assess young people's needs soon after arrest could be undermined by a lack of specialist local support.

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Campaign to improve mental health support for young black men in prisons

Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’

Children's mental health services 'turning away cannabis-related cases'

Spit hood use on children more than doubles

More than a third of young people 'living in fear of crime'

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

YJB convention: Minister outlines mental health and sport focus

Minister outlines £24m young offender mental health programme

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

Sector skills organisations announce merger

Public services should be 'preventer of problems' say early help experts

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

Campaigners call for system overhaul to tackle custody deaths

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Labour Party Conference: Shadow justice secretary backs support for children of prisoners

Prison ombudsman urges greater support for family contact

Gyimah handed role to strengthen children's mental health services

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

Youth justice objectives to be central to Neet reduction drive

Performance-related payments ‘too risky' for charities, analysis warns

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Mental health service deficiencies ‘undermine penal support pilot'

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