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Boris Johnson awards funding to gang violence project

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  • Monday, March 14, 2016
  • | CYP Now
An award-winning service that places specialist youth workers in hospital emergency departments to tackle gang violence has been extended for another year after Mayor of London Boris Johnson agreed to £345,000 of extra funding.

YJB chief: Future of quango in doubt

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  • Wednesday, February 24, 2016
  • | CYP Now
The future of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is in doubt, with the quango unlikely to continue in its present form once a government review of the youth justice system is completed, the organisation's chief executive has said.

Youth remand continues to fall

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  • Thursday, October 8, 2015
  • | CYP Now
The amount of time spent by young people on remand in youth custody has fallen for the second year in a row, government figures show.

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

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  • Wednesday, August 26, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Spending on staff in young offender institutions (YOIs) will be cut and efforts to make the restraint system safer will be shelved as part of Youth Justice Board (YJB) proposals to deal with emergency in-year cuts imposed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), it has emerged.