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Councils stung by 500m youth remand bill

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  • Monday, September 19, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The government's proposed changes to the youth justice system could cost local authorities an additional half a billion pounds each year, an investigation by CYP Now has found.

Lord Carlile blasts restraint progress

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  • Monday, April 18, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile of Berriew led an independent inquiry into the use of restraint, solitary confinement and strip-searching on children in custody back in 2006.

No going back to jail

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The Heron Wing at Feltham Young Offender Institution has set out to drive down reoffending rates. Tom de Castella reports.

Speech therapists fear lack of offender support

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Community healthcare trusts are being urged not to drop speech and language therapist services for young offenders after the first young offender institution (YOI) to introduce the provision has scrapped its only full-time post.

Youth Justice: Autistic or criminal?

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  • Monday, October 25, 2010
  • | CYP Now
People with autism are seven times more likely to come into contact with the legal system than the public at large. Rowenna Davis asks just how well prepared the criminal justice system is for identifying young people with mental health conditions.

The Youth Justice Board: 1999-2011

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  • Monday, October 18, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Somewhere in the archives of early 21st-century British social policy, there may be a dusty volume that records the fact that I was the only person who served under all five chairs of the Youth Justice Board - the supremely confident and connected Norman Warner, interim chair and passionate advocate of restorative justice Charles Pollard, the intellectually unsurpassable Rod Morgan, the pragmatic and effective Graham Robb (another interim chair), and the cautious but industrious Frances Done.

Anger at more prison places

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  • Monday, July 19, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Justice chiefs are facing criticism after a document revealed plans to commission additional prison places for young offenders, despite falling custody levels.

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