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Youth custody levels drop to new low

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Friday, February 12, 2016

| CYP Now

Numbers of children held in custody have fallen to a new low, latest figures have shown.

Self-harm in youth custody on the rise

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Friday, January 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Young people in custody are increasingly likely to harm themselves, latest figures show.

Ofsted calls for body-worn cameras across all youth custody settings

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Staff in all youth custody settings should be made to wear body cameras in a bid to prevent mistreatment of young people, Ofsted and the Prisons Inspectorate have said.

Former YJB chief to decide whether to probe Medway abuse allegations

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| CYP Now

The former chief executive of the Youth Justice Board will have the final say on whether a serious case review (SCR) should be conducted into allegations of abuse of children held in custody at Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) in Kent.

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

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Friday, January 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for vulnerable children and young people will launch in February, it has been announced.

Council children's centre funding cuts double in a year

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

| CYP Now

The pace of cuts to local authority spending on children's centres has doubled over the past year, latest council figures reveal.

YJB to save £4.6m by axing secure children's home places

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of custodial places in secure children's homes are to be cut by 15 per cent, it has been announced.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Young people report 'struggling to breathe' during custody restraints

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Young people have been left struggling to breathe as a result of being restrained by officers in youth custody units, a report has revealed.

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Police, councils, youth services, and schools should be working with children as young as seven to prevent them getting involved with gangs or violent youth crime, it has been claimed.

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.

Ofsted joint inspections delayed as councils shun pilots

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's plans to launch new joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for children and young people have been delayed amid councils declining approaches to take part in trials, it has emerged.

Campaigners question suitability of firm in charge of youth custody unit

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Concerns have been raised over the suitability of a company that runs US jails to manage a controversial youth custody unit in England.

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

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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.

Charities demand government strategy for children of prisoners

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Government must introduce a national strategy to improve support for children of prisoners a group of charities 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.

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Police officers dealing with under-18s should treat them as "children first" rather than potential criminals, the organisation representing police chiefs has said.

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Spending on staff in young offender institutions (YOIs) will be cut and efforts to make the restraint system safer will be shelved as part of Youth Justice Board (YJB) proposals to deal with emergency in-year cuts imposed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), it has emerged.

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Runaway and missing children are being exploited by criminal gangs in order to expand inner city drug networks into county towns, a study has found.

Agencies to get eight days' notice of joint child protection inspections

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Agencies involved in child protection work will be given eight days' notice prior to being inspected under a new joint inspection system being introduced this autumn, it has been confirmed.

YOTs 'failing to learn' from serious incidents involving young offenders

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Monday, June 29, 2015

| CYP Now

Lessons are not being learned from serious incidents such as rape and murder committed by young offenders known to youth justice services, a review has found.

YOTs boycott secure training centre over scathing inspection

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) are refusing to send young people to a secure training centre that was blasted by inspectors for incidents of gross misconduct by staff, it has emerged.

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Youth custody levels drop to new low

Self-harm in youth custody on the rise

Ofsted calls for body-worn cameras across all youth custody settings

Former YJB chief to decide whether to probe Medway abuse allegations

Ofsted joint safeguarding inspections to launch next month

Council children's centre funding cuts double in a year

YJB to save £4.6m by axing secure children's home places

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Young people report 'struggling to breathe' during custody restraints

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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

Ofsted joint inspections delayed as councils shun pilots

Campaigners question suitability of firm in charge of youth custody unit

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

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

Charities demand government strategy for children of prisoners

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

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

Agencies to get eight days' notice of joint child protection inspections

YOTs 'failing to learn' from serious incidents involving young offenders

YOTs boycott secure training centre over scathing inspection

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