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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Despite a recent fall in knife-related assaults, there are fears the pandemic has fuelled the factors that give rise to youth violence, prompting fresh calls for action to divert young people from harm.

Charity uses lived experience to divert young offenders

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

St Giles offers direct, intensive help for young people caught up in criminal exploitation with issues around weapons crime, serious violence and county lines.

FoI probe reveals reluctance of YOTs to use weapons detectors

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

CYP Now investigation shows just 30 per cent of councils have weapons detectors in premises used by youth offending teams despite a review calling for such measures after the murder of a young person at a setting.

Tackling youth violence: policy context

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

A survey of local directors of public health by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) for England assessed local responses to youth violence and gangs.

Youth offending service policies

Analysis

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams use a range of approaches governing the searching of young people for weapons.

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit, on why the organisation has created a resource summarising the best research on different approaches to preventing serious youth violence.

Violence reduction units tackle the causes of youth violence

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Evidence tells us a child first approach is effective in addressing the offending behaviour of the small number of children within the youth justice system, and in preventing offending by those who are more likely to enter it.

Give police the tools to target offenders

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

In 2020, I wrote a controversial book about the gang problems that plague towns and cities throughout the UK.

Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency working

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

| CYP Now

A review of multi-agency working in response to youth offending praises work to help young people move away from crime, but criticises the response around looked-after children, finds Jo Stephenson.

Interview: Campbell Robb, Nacro chief executive

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the Nacro chief executive about reducing youth crime.

LGA warns government against further youth offending cuts

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.

Inspectors blame council failings for unsafe placement of young offenders

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths

Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A new cross-party group of MPs and peers has been launched to investigate the rise in knife crime across the UK.

Knife crime initiative aims for expansion into youth custody