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Keep children in custody at the front of our minds

    Opinion
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
    • | CYP Now
A Child in Mind was the haunting title chosen by Lord Louis Blom-Cooper for his report into the murder of four-year-old Kimberley Carlile in Greenwich in 1986. The challenge of keeping the fate of children in custody in all our minds comes back to me regularly.

Custody staff need crisis communication training

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2020
    • | CYP Now
The Independent review of the use of pain-inducing techniques – published over the summer – in short hasn’t told us anything we didn’t know before and the heart of the recommendations are simply echoes of previous reports that still haven’t been enacted.

Time is the key in secure school reforms

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 29, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The government announced last month that Oasis Charitable Trust will operate the first secure school in the country on the current site of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC).

Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.

Surviving on the inside

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 12, 2010
    • | CYP Now
I smiled at the recent finding by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons that a significant number of prisoners declare themselves to be Muslims because that way they get better food.

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