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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.

YJB urges ‘radical' reform of youth justice services

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Friday, November 27, 2015

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has called on government to commit to "fundamental and radical" reform of youth justice services in order to keep the system functioning in the wake of major funding cuts.

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.??

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.

Police and crime commissioner to take over youth offending service

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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.

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.

Youth remand continues to fall

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

| CYP Now

The amount of time spent by young people on remand in youth custody has fallen for the second year in a row, government figures show.

Fears cuts to YOTs will trigger youth custody rise

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Monday, October 5, 2015

| CYP Now

More children and young people could end up in custody if proposed emergency cuts to funding for youth offending teams (YOTs) are rubber-stamped, local government leaders have warned.

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".

Rise in violence at YOI leads to more young people feeling unsafe

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Levels of violence at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution (YOI) are growing, with assaults on staff and boys held at the establishment rising over the past year, according to inspectors.

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.

Gove orders review of youth justice system

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Friday, September 11, 2015

| CYP Now

A former government adviser on school behaviour will head a review of the youth justice system, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has announced.

G4S loses contract for STC where staff degraded young people

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Friday, September 4, 2015

| CYP Now

A secure training centre (STC) where young people were subjected to degrading treatment and racist abuse from prison officers will be placed under new management, it has been announced.

Inspectors praise youth offending team's progress

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

| CYP Now

A youth offending team (YOT) has been praised by inspectors for turning things around 18 months after concerns were raised about "worryingly poor" work.

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.

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

YJB urges ‘radical' reform of youth justice services

NCS under consideration as 'intervention' for young offenders

Young people report 'struggling to breathe' during custody restraints

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

Police and crime commissioner to take over youth offending service

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

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

Youth remand continues to fall

Fears cuts to YOTs will trigger youth custody rise

One in three young people in custody are in care system

Independent trust's youth offending work deemed 'unsatisfactory'

Rise in violence at YOI leads to more young people feeling unsafe

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

Gove orders review of youth justice system

G4S loses contract for STC where staff degraded young people

Inspectors praise youth offending team's progress

Sector skills organisations announce merger

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