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Extra days in youth jails rising despite falling custody levels

Sunday, July 22, 2012

| CYP Now

Extra days in custody are increasingly being handed out to young offenders as punishment for breaching the rules, it has emerged.

Spotlight on young offender transitions to adult secure estate

News

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

| CYP Now

Work to address "significant gaps" in information on young offenders moving from the youth estate to the young adult estate has got underway in four young adult institutions.

Child custody campaign ends after five years

News

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

| CYP Now

A high-profile campaign to reduce numbers of children in custody is to conclude by the end of the year when its funding finishes, it has been confirmed.

'Two-tier' care for children in custody criticised

News

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people given looked-after status on being remanded in custody will not have the same rights as those who are already looked after, a campaign group has claimed.

Government warned against using payment-by-results in youth justice

News

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has been warned that payment-by-results in the youth justice system could have a negative impact on young offenders, after Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to extend use of the concept.

Daily roundup: Rochdale resignation, the Scout Promise, and Bristol young offenders in judicial review

Other

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

| CYP Now

The chair of Rochdale's safeguarding children board resigns, an alternative Scout pledge is considered for atheists, and a legal hearing into the punishment of young offenders in Bristol, all in the news today.

Commons committee votes to proceed with abolition of YJB

News

Friday, September 16, 2011

| CYP Now

Hopes that the Youth Justice Board will avoid the axe have been dealt a blow after a group of MPs voted to proceed with its abolition.

Young people leave custody 'without NI numbers'

News

Friday, September 23, 2011

| CYP Now

Children and young adults are leaving custody without being issued a National Insurance number, hampering their chances of successful resettlement, it has been claimed.

Teenager found dead at Essex YOI

News

Thursday, July 7, 2011

| CYP Now

A teenager has been found dead at a young offender institution (YOI) in Essex, CYP Now has learned.

Youth prisons have capacity to cope with rise in remands after riots, confirms YJB chief

News

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth jails have more than enough capacity to deal with an expected surge in demand as a result of riots breaking out across England, the head of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said.

Landmark payment-by-results project to launch for young offenders

News

Thursday, April 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Payment-by-results will be used as part of a major five-year programme to improve resettlement support for young people leaving custody, it has been confirmed.

Further fall in number of first-time young offenders

News

Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of young people convicted for an offence for the first time is continuing to fall, latest Ministry of Justice figures have revealed.

Charity calls for better resettlement planning in custody

News

Thursday, July 2, 2015

| CYP Now

There needs to be an overhaul of resettlement support for those leaving youth custody if high reoffending rates are to be reduced, crime reduction charity Nacro has said.

Youth offending team inspections suspended as YJB confirms £9m cuts

News

Thursday, November 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Inspections of local authority youth offending teams (YOTs) will be suspended for a period as part of efforts to help them cope with £9m of in-year cuts that have been rubber-stamped by the Youth Justice Board.

Nightingale courts not enough to reduce number of child prisoners, say experts

Analysis

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| CYP Now

“I am going to be on remand for one year…the delay in my case has been the worst effect of coronavirus,” one child told HM Inspectorate of Prisons amid calls for the government to reduce a huge backlog of trials for both crown and youth courts.

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.

Custody staff need crisis communication training

Opinion

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

The Independent review of the use of pain-inducing techniques – published over the summer – in short hasn’t told us anything we didn’t know before and the heart of the recommendations are simply echoes of previous reports that still haven’t been enacted.

Lords vote to save Youth Justice Board

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| CYP Now

The government has been dealt a blow over plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board after the House of Lords passed an amendment that the organisation should be retained.

MPs set out conditions for transfer of youth justice responsibilities

News

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

| CYP Now

A report by the justice select committee on the proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board has called for certain conditions to be followed if functions are taken over by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

YOIs must act as a deterrent, says Brooke Kinsella

News

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Young offender institutions must become places of punishment rather than "holiday camps" in order to tackle knife crime, ex-EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella has said.

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