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Inspectorates slam youth offending agencies for resettlement failings

Friday, March 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Probation, education and health inspectors have criticised poor-quality support for young offenders when released from custody.

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

News

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A panel of criminal justice and mental health experts has called for greater scrutiny into how liaison and diversion services for young people are being implemented across England.

School safeguarding, mental health, and healthy living

News

Friday, March 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Coventry schools to have safeguarding checks; trust defends offering counselling in cafes; and smoking bans deliver child health benefits, all in the news today.

Campaigners call for more cash and beds after ban on mental health cell use

News

Friday, December 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's mental health campaigners have welcomed plans to outlaw the detention of young people in police cells under the Mental Health Act but warn more funding is needed to ensure they have access to alternative places of safety.

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

News

Friday, January 24, 2014

| CYP Now

Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

MPs call for ban on cell use for children in mental health crisis

News

Friday, February 6, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs are calling on health commissioners and ministers to take urgent action to halt the detention of young people in police cells under the Mental Health Act.

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

News

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has issued updated advice on crisis mental health care that states police cells should never be used to hold children and young people.

Daily roundup: Job support, family courts and child poverty

Other

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Intensive support trialled for jobless 16- and 17-year-olds not receiving benefits; adoption hearing cancelled due to lack of translators; and report reveals impact of recession on child poverty, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School safeguarding, children's services and child injuries

Other

Friday, April 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Gove highlights FGM risk in letter to school head teachers; Coventry councillors work together to improve children's services; and Nottinghamshire councils develop plan to cut child injuries, all in the news today.

Mental health service deficiencies ‘undermine penal support pilot'

News

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Mental health and penal reform campaigners are concerned a government scheme that will see mental health professionals assess young people's needs soon after arrest could be undermined by a lack of specialist local support.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

News

Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Cells used to hold mentally ill children

News

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Dozens of children in South West England, some as young as 11, have been held in police cells after being detained under the Mental Health Act, it has been revealed.

Daily roundup: School inspections, child protection and mental health

News

Thursday, February 6, 2014

| CYP Now

Minister calls for Ofsted to inspect academy chains; serious case review finds health services missed chances to refer baby to social workers; and new standards for managing anxiety published, all in the news today.

Children treated on adult mental health wards on the rise

News

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

| CYP Now

More children and young people have been treated on adult mental health wards in the first eight months of 2013/14 than the whole of the previous year, new data reveals.

Legal Update: Mental health detention

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| CYP Now

Lauren Morling and Sihana Bina of Coram International set out requirements when detaining children for mental health reasons and what changes are needed to respect young people's rights.

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Inspectorates slam youth offending agencies for resettlement failings

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

School safeguarding, mental health, and healthy living

Campaigners call for more cash and beds after ban on mental health cell use

Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

MPs call for ban on cell use for children in mental health crisis

Government advises against cell use for children with mental health problems

Daily roundup: Job support, family courts and child poverty

Daily roundup: School safeguarding, children's services and child injuries

Mental health service deficiencies ‘undermine penal support pilot'

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Cells used to hold mentally ill children

Daily roundup: School inspections, child protection and mental health

Children treated on adult mental health wards on the rise

Legal Update: Mental health detention

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