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Youth workers in emergency departments 'reduce youth violence'

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| CYP Now

Schemes that place youth workers in hospital A&E departments show “real promise” in keeping children safe from involvement in violence, researchers have said.

How schemes divert young people in London from formal justice system

Features

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Youth diversion schemes offering an alternative to formal criminal justice proceedings are improving outcomes for young people involved in low-level criminal behaviour.

Youth Justice: Special Report

Features

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| CYP Now

Against a background of continuing wide-ranging reforms of the youth justice system, CYP Now’s special report looks at the latest trends and policy developments, academic research and examples of best practice.

One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime

News

Thursday, January 31, 2019

| CYP Now

Some children may be unnecessarily ending up with a criminal record because not all youth offending teams (YOTs) are offering diversion schemes, research suggests.

Media focus on knife crime 'fuelling excessive arrests of black children'

News

Monday, September 10, 2018

| CYP Now

An increase in media coverage of knife crime and gang issues has contributed to high levels of arrests of black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) children and their disproportional representation in youth custody, a charity has said.

Call for urgent review of video links for child defendants

News

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

| CYP Now

The increasing use of video links for court cases involving children could be affecting the chances of them getting a fair trial and should be urgently reviewed, children's charities and youth justice campaigners have said.

MPs call for overhaul of youth criminal records system

News

Thursday, October 26, 2017

| CYP Now

An influential group of MPs has called for major changes to the way young people's criminal records are disclosed in a bid to improve employment opportunities.

Special Report: Restorative Practice

Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Restorative practice is now being used across a wide range of services for vulnerable children, young people and families and has a distinct set of principles and standards underpinning the approach.

Bristol Reparation Service

Best Practice

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Project run by Catch 22 for Bristol Youth Offending Team (YOT) enables young offenders to make amends through community service, while being worked with restoratively.

Review recommends youth justice overhaul to tackle racial bias

News

Friday, September 8, 2017

| CYP Now

Young offenders should be dealt with in culturally sensitive community courts with a strong focus on parenting, according to a review into the treatment of minority groups in the justice system.

Child arrests fall but violence in custody rises

News

Thursday, January 26, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of under-18s being arrested is continuing to fall, but levels of violence and self-harm in youth custody are on the rise, government figures show.

Malachi Community Trust

Best Practice

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Programme for schools to identify children with troubling behaviour and support their families.

Sutton Youth Offending Team

Best Practice

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

| CYP Now

How the team uses referral orders to help young people stop their offending behaviour before it becomes entrenched.

Preventing Youth Offending: Research evidence

Research

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Four studies on: Learning disability nursing; Risk, promotive and protective factors; Restorative justice-based practices; and Reinventing Diversion

Study identifies what works best in cutting youth reoffending

Other

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Why building strong relationships between youth offending team staff and young offenders is critical in preventing young people from committing further crimes.

Government minister appointed to lead Youth Justice Board

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Government minister Lord McNally has been appointed as the new chair of the Youth Justice Board, it has been announced.

Bid to increase age of criminal responsibility dismissed by government

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Government has rejected calls by leading children's charities for the age of criminal responsibility to be increased.

Gemma test

News

Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

A partnership between a youth offending team and university has been launched to improve practice, in a move that could pave the way for similar arrangements elsewhere in England and Wales.

YJB moves to tackle minority ethnic over-representation in youth justice system

News

Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Youth justice chiefs are bidding to attract more people from black and ethnic minority communities to work within the system as part of efforts to tackle disproportionality.