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Paddick outlines plans for hotel levy to fund youth centres

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth hubs funded by banks and a luxury hotel levy should be set up across the capital to offer young people an alternative to gangs, Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick has said.

Prison deterrent scheme wins praise

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

| CYP Now

A project showing children what it is like to be sentenced to custody has a lasting effect on pupils, research has found.

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

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Monday, December 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed anti-slavery legislation to be published; Cameron rejects child benefit cap; and consultation launched on children's homes inspection framework, all in the news today.

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.

Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Involving youth offending services with the government's troubled families agenda could help reduce numbers of young people getting in trouble with the law, MPs have been told.

MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A new cross-party group of MPs and peers has been launched to investigate the rise in knife crime across the UK.

Magistrates back court-style hearings to deter young gang members from crime

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Court-style hearings that highlight the consequences of crime to young gang members at risk of offending should be considered across all of England and Wales, a leading magistrate has said.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Youth justice committee attacks failure to reject custody for behaviour breaches

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Monday, February 18, 2013

| CYP Now

The Standing Committee for Youth Justice (SCYJ) has criticised a cross-party group of MPs for failing to call for an end to custodial sentences for young people who breach antisocial behaviour orders.

Custody review to create youth suicide prevention strategy

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth justice experts are being called on to help develop a strategy to prevent suicide among young adults in custody.

MPs back mandatory sentences for knife possession

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Plans for over-16s to face mandatory custodial sentences if they are convicted of a knife offence for a second time have been backed by MPs.

Riots reinforce need for early intervention, says Allen

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

| CYP Now

The MP who led a review on early intervention has called for the government to hold its nerve in pursuing long-term societal change in the wake of riots across England.

Inquiry warns of 'lack of trust' between police and young people

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Police training should be reviewed in order to address poor relations with young people, a group of MPs has recommended.

YJB considers police presence at troubled Feltham YOI

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is considering placing police officers in Feltham Young Offenders Institution (YOI) in an effort to tackle high levels of gang violence.

Inspectors deem police child protection 'inadequate' in a third of cases

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

| CYP Now

The protection and safeguarding of vulnerable children is not being given high enough priority by police due to a lack of awareness of the issue, a review of practice in eight police forces has concluded.

Inspection highlights secure accommodation shortage

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Concerns have been raised by inspectors over the lack of suitable secure accommodation for children who have been charged by police and refused bail in one area of England.

Clarke poised to reject calls for mandatory sentences for under-18s carrying knives

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

| CYP Now

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has told a group of MPs he is likely to oppose calls to introduce mandatory sentences for children caught carrying knives.

Magistrates voice opposition to knife-sentencing proposals

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Controversial last-minute changes to government sentencing plans will result in as many as 400 additional children each year being jailed.

50,000 children locked up by police

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

| CYP Now

More than 50,000 children under the age of 16 were held in police cells in 2008 and 2009 it has emerged.

Children held on remand are to be classed as 'looked-after' by councils

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| CYP Now

All young people remanded in custody will have to be recognised as looked-after children by local authorities, under plans to reduce reoffending and shake up the justice system.

Campaigners urge Labour to make age of criminal responsibility central to justice policy

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Raising the age of criminal responsibility and focusing more on early intervention at a local level should form the basis of Labour's new criminal justice policy, according to a campaign group.

Knife-point robberies up 10 per cent

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

| CYP Now

Latest figures show that knife-point robberies have increased by 10 per cent in England and Wales, just days before a bill proposing mandatory sentences for teenagers involved with knife crime is due to be debated by Lords.

Votes at 16 Coalition rounds on Independent columnist

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Monday, April 15, 2013

| CYP Now

The Votes at 16 Coalition has hit back at The Independent's Mary Dejevsky after she argued that the row over the UK's first-ever youth police commissioner Paris Brown showed that the voting age should not be reduced.

Gang databases result in 'stop and search by association'

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Police databases of gang members are contributing to young people being stopped and searched based on who they hang out with and the colour of their skin, an academic has found.

Inquiry to examine police-youth relations

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

| CYP Now

MPs and peers have launched an inquiry into the way the police interact with children and young people.

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Paddick outlines plans for hotel levy to fund youth centres

Prison deterrent scheme wins praise

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told

MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths

Magistrates back court-style hearings to deter young gang members from crime

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

Youth justice committee attacks failure to reject custody for behaviour breaches

Custody review to create youth suicide prevention strategy

MPs back mandatory sentences for knife possession

Riots reinforce need for early intervention, says Allen

Inquiry warns of 'lack of trust' between police and young people

YJB considers police presence at troubled Feltham YOI

Inspectors deem police child protection 'inadequate' in a third of cases

Inspection highlights secure accommodation shortage

Clarke poised to reject calls for mandatory sentences for under-18s carrying knives

Magistrates voice opposition to knife-sentencing proposals

50,000 children locked up by police

Children held on remand are to be classed as 'looked-after' by councils

Campaigners urge Labour to make age of criminal responsibility central to justice policy

Knife-point robberies up 10 per cent

Votes at 16 Coalition rounds on Independent columnist

Gang databases result in 'stop and search by association'

Inquiry to examine police-youth relations

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