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Finding an effective way to tackle antisocial behaviour

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 23, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The government has signalled its intention to get rid of Asbos. But instead of conceding that they had never been intended for young people in the first place, the cabinet has claimed it is because of the scheme's ineffectiveness.

Editorial: A tough decade for the youth justice system

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 20, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The youth justice system is under heightened scrutiny as we approach the tenth anniversary of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which created the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) alongside local youth offending teams (YOTs).

Embarrassing custody rates require creative solutions

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 25, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The high number of young people held in youth custody in England and Wales has been a cause of national embarrassment. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has quite rightly raised concerns at the levels of young people held in our youth jails in its recent reports. Despite impressive reductions in recent years, more than 2,000 under-18s were in custody in May.

Editorial: YJB chair must stand up to political heat

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The government has at last ended its search for a permanent chair of the Youth Justice Board (see p7). Frances Done's appointment rounds off a turbulent 12 months for the YJB, for it was this very week last year that Rod Morgan resigned the post.

Youth crime demands a mature approach

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Youth Crime Action Plan was being drafted frantically as CYP Now went to press. This keenly anticipated document is the most high-profile piece of children's policy this year.

How the prison system can fail young people

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 16, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Sometimes you strike up a special relationship with a young person surprisingly fast. It is almost impossible to unravel the chemistry of such moments but you don't have to work at it in the same way as you do to develop more routine youth work relationships.

Make Oakhill review public to shape youth custody

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 24, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I met Chris in 2009. In his early 20s, Chris had been recruited to work at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Previously a youth worker, he said he surprised himself by his career move into youth custody.

Who should foot the youth custody bill?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
There has been renewed debate about whether local authorities should be charged when "their" young people are sentenced to custody. Frances Done, chair of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), backed the councils being charged in her recent interview with CYP Now (29 January-4 February).

Wild wastelands should be scenes of fun

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The swathes of land that were once the industrial heartlands of Britain, now reclaimed by nature, offer a fantastic adventure playground for children and young people. The communities that grew up surrounded by coal and steel now have wild parklands on their doorstep.

This game of funding musical chairs must stop

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The principle is a good one and absolutely right: early intervention in childhood, providing support to children and their families, carries the best prospect of reducing risk factors and enhancing protective factors for children and young people further down the track.

Can good services remain standing?

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 21, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Like the suffocating drone of vuvuzelas, cuts continue to dominate the atmosphere in the children's services arena and in public services more generally.

Sir Philip Green right to propose centralised approach

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 25, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Sir Philip Green has spotted that the government is inefficient. It buys laptops and paper for wildly different and inflated prices, and manages its property portfolio appallingly. He proposes centralisation, and who could argue against that? A central agency could distribute supplies much more cheaply than every business unit buying their own.

Corporate providers must be held to account

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The moving of children from Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre should be a stark warning that we have systematically failed to protect the most vulnerable from abuse, failed to hold those in authority to account and failed to mend a broken system.

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