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London Mayor ploughs £4.7m into tackling exclusions and violence in schools

Thursday, November 14, 2019

| CYP Now

Schools in areas of London blighted by youth violence are to be handed £4.7m to prevent children from being excluded and to better protect them after hometime.

Youth parliamentarians target knife crime

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Thursday, January 24, 2019

| CYP Now

Tackling knife crime has reached the top of the agenda for youth parliamentarians after more than a million young people voted to prioritise the issue.

Serious violence: £200m fund opens to youth projects

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Monday, December 10, 2018

| CYP Now

A £200m government fund to tackle rising levels of serious youth violence by supporting projects that help vulnerable children aged between 10 and 14, has opened to bids.

Drones and artificial intelligence to tackle youth violence? Home Office seeks 'innovative' ideas

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

| CYP Now

New technological ways of tackling serious youth violence - such as the use of drones or artificial intelligence (AI) to identify people carrying knives - are set to be considered as part of a government drive to develop innovative ideas.

'County lines' child trafficker convicted in landmark case

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Friday, October 5, 2018

| CYP Now

A drug dealer has been jailed for 14 years in the first successful prosecution under legislation to tackle "county lines" crime, in which gangs exploit vulnerable children to establish drug networks.

Crime prevention initiative set for expansion

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Friday, April 20, 2018

| CYP Now

A pilot programme that works with young offenders as soon as they are taken into police custody in a bid to help divert them from crime and find work is to be expanded.

Primary staff 'frustrated and angry' at lack of help to steer children from gangs

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Staff in primary schools often feel powerless to support young people at risk of getting involved with gangs, because they are not getting the help they need from within the school or from other local agencies, a report has warned.

LGA warns government against further youth offending cuts

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| CYP Now

Years of success at tackling youth crime will be threatened unless the government maintains funding for tackling and preventing youth offending, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

London mayor announces £45m investment for youth services

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

| CYP Now

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced plans to invest £45m in youth services over the next three years in a bid to divert young people in London away from crime.

Experts look to public health model to tackle surge in youth knife crime

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

| CYP Now

A public health approach to tackling violent crime has been credited with cutting the murder rate in Scotland. Experts say the same model should be used in London following a rise in knife crime involving young people.

Police forces praised for action on criminalisation in children's homes

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Monday, December 18, 2017

| CYP Now

Joint action by care home providers and police to tackle the criminalisation of children in residential care is dramatically reducing the number of inappropriate call-outs, research has found.

Inspectors blame council failings for unsafe placement of young offenders

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

| CYP Now

Council failures are to blame for the placement of one in three homeless young offenders in unsuitable and unsafe accommodation across England and Wales, according to probation inspectors.

Labour urges action on youth knife crime

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Monday, December 4, 2017

| CYP Now

Labour has called on the government to deploy youth workers in hospitals to counter the growing number of young people dying from knife crime.

Two thirds of police forces report issue with 'county lines' child exploitation

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Children are being exploited by drugs gangs through so-called "county lines" crime, in at least two thirds of police force areas a National Crime Agency report has found.

One in three police commissioners 'not funding youth crime prevention'

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Monday, November 27, 2017

| CYP Now

More than a third of police and crime commissioners do not fund youth crime prevention initiatives, a government study has found.

Hospital-based youth work initiative to extend to Birmingham and Nottingham

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Monday, November 6, 2017

| CYP Now

An initiative that sees youth workers placed in hospital emergency departments to engage victims of gang violence is set to expand to Birmingham and Nottingham.

Children in care proceedings 'three times more likely to have offended'

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Young people involved with family court care proceedings are three times more likely to have offended than their peers, a study has found.

Probation chief proposes emotional trauma training for YOT staff

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Work with young offenders is being hampered by a lack of understanding of the devastating effect of trauma on young offenders' lives, according to the chief inspector of probation.