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Psychologists help youth club support young men affected by offending

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Trained psychologists were based at a youth club in Haringey to provide counselling and support to young people and staff.

Recognise Covid errors for next pandemic response

Opinion

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

| CYP Now

Iris was a few weeks short of her 18th birthday when she took her life in August 2020.

Campaign to improve mental health support for young black men in prisons

News

Friday, October 8, 2021

| CYP Now

More than a third of UK adults think mental health support offered to young black men in prisons is not effective in preventing reoffending, research by a prisons charity shows.

Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’

News

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts are warning that girls in the youth secure estate are facing high levels of mental health problems and are at an increased risk of self-harm.

NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues

Best Practice

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to support children and young people in secure settings as part of a wider government strategy to address their complex psychological needs.

Children & Young People Now Awards 2019: shortlist revealed

Other

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

| CYP Now

The CYP Now Awards highlight the very best practice in work with children, young people and families.

Children's mental health services 'turning away cannabis-related cases'

News

Thursday, September 13, 2018

| CYP Now

Young people with mental health issues linked to cannabis use are being turned away from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), a report has suggested.

Spit hood use on children more than doubles

News

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

| CYP Now

Instances of the controversial practice of police using spit hoods on children have risen dramatically this year, according to figures obtained by the Children's Rights Alliance for England (Crae).

More than a third of young people 'living in fear of crime'

News

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

| CYP Now

Fear of being a victim of crime is currently the biggest concern for young people, a major survey has found.

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

News

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

| CYP Now

The government does not know how many children are vulnerable and agencies cannot agree on how to define and identify them, children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned.

Tackling offender mental health

Features

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

| CYP Now

A MAC-UK scheme could point the way for supporting young offenders with mental health problems.

Just Health

Best Practice

Monday, April 10, 2017

| CYP Now

Consultation gathered young people's views on what needs to change in the youth justice system to improve their emotional health.

YJB convention: Minister outlines mental health and sport focus

News

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Greater emphasis must be placed on addressing the mental health needs of young offenders and expanding the provision of sport in youth custody, the minister responsible for youth justice has said.

Minister outlines £24m young offender mental health programme

News

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Details have emerged of a joint youth justice and health initiative to boost mental health services for young people in trouble with the law.

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Qualification requirements and training provision for working with children and young people is continuously adapting in line with changes in policy and practice. Charlotte Goddard provides a comprehensive overview.

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

News

Thursday, September 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Plans to make emergency in-year cuts of £13.5m to youth justice work have been blasted by children's services chiefs and youth justice managers.

Sector skills organisations announce merger

News

Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

The two sector skills councils covering children's professions across health and justice are to merge.

Understanding how young brains work

Other

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Until fairly recently, it was widely believed that the overwhelming majority of brain development took place in early childhood.

Public services should be 'preventer of problems' say early help experts

News

Monday, April 13, 2015

| CYP Now

A group of political analysts, including a former adviser to David Cameron, is calling on the next government to prioritise early intervention as a matter of urgency.

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

News

Thursday, March 19, 2015

| CYP Now

A teenage young offender found hanged in his cell was let down by the "collective corporate system", according to a damning serious case review (SCR) into his death.

Campaigners call for system overhaul to tackle custody deaths

News

Monday, March 2, 2015

| CYP Now

Many of the 65 young people who died in custody in England and Wales over the past four years had a history of mental health problems or had been in care, analysis has revealed.

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

News

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers should receive basic mental health training as part of a shake-up of services in order to support young people in gangs, MPs have been told.

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

News

Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Local authorities have been ordered to undertake an audit of how they respond to child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

Labour Party Conference: Shadow justice secretary backs support for children of prisoners

News

Monday, September 22, 2014

| CYP Now

A Labour government will work to ascertain how many children have a parent in prison, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan has pledged.

Prison ombudsman urges greater support for family contact

News

Thursday, September 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Prisons must do more to facilitate family contact where appropriate, the prison and probation ombudsman for England and Wales has said.

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Psychologists help youth club support young men affected by offending

Recognise Covid errors for next pandemic response

Campaign to improve mental health support for young black men in prisons

Girls in secure estate facing ‘high levels of trauma and risk of self-harm’

NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues

Children & Young People Now Awards 2019: shortlist revealed

Children's mental health services 'turning away cannabis-related cases'

Spit hood use on children more than doubles

More than a third of young people 'living in fear of crime'

Longfield: Child vulnerability data is 'tip of the iceberg'

Tackling offender mental health

Just Health

YJB convention: Minister outlines mental health and sport focus

Minister outlines £24m young offender mental health programme

Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Children's services chiefs hit out at youth justice cuts

Sector skills organisations announce merger

Understanding how young brains work

Public services should be 'preventer of problems' say early help experts

Leeds teenager let down by care and justice agencies

Campaigners call for system overhaul to tackle custody deaths

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

Government orders councils to review child sexual exploitation procedures

Labour Party Conference: Shadow justice secretary backs support for children of prisoners

Prison ombudsman urges greater support for family contact

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