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Children's workforce guide to training and qualifications

Thursday, October 1, 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.

Review set to reveal Gove plans

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice experts say education of young offenders must not dominate the review of the system

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.

Gove orders review of youth justice system

News

Friday, September 11, 2015

| CYP Now

A former government adviser on school behaviour will head a review of the youth justice system, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has announced.

G4S loses contract for STC where staff degraded young people

News

Friday, September 4, 2015

| CYP Now

A secure training centre (STC) where young people were subjected to degrading treatment and racist abuse from prison officers will be placed under new management, it has been announced.

YJB proposes cuts to spending on youth custody staff

News

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.

YOTs face in-year cuts of £12m

News

Thursday, August 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) will be forced to cut early intervention work and make staff redundant due to proposed emergency cuts of 14 per cent, it has been claimed.

Inspectors praise specialist youth custody unit

News

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

| CYP Now

A specialist unit for vulnerable young offenders has been praised by prison inspectors, who have awarded it their highest grade across all areas of its work.

Youth reoffending on the increase

News

Thursday, July 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Numbers of young offenders going on to commit further crimes has increased, latest statistics show.

Bid to repair reputation of STC where staff 'degraded' young people

News

Friday, July 24, 2015

| CYP Now

The private firm that runs a secure training centre where staff were found to have degraded and racially abused young people has called for a reinspection of the establishment in a bid to restore its reputation.

Use of high-security ‘closed visits' in youth custody on the rise

News

Friday, July 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of times young people in custody are being made to undergo high-security "closed visits" behind glass are on the rise, government statistics have shown.

YOI to trial use of Skype by young offenders

News

Thursday, July 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Young people held at a young offender institution (YOI) will be able to talk to their families and youth offending team (YOT) workers by using internet video calling.

Teenager dies while held in Cookham Wood YOI

News

Thursday, July 9, 2015

| CYP Now

An investigation has been launched into the death at the weekend of a young person in custody at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution (YOI).

Legal Update: Government rights failings exposed

Other

Monday, July 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's charities have launched a damning report highlighting the government's failure to prioritise children, reports Anita Hurrell, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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.

Inspectors praise safeguarding work at Wetherby YOI, but warn over rise in violence

News

Thursday, June 18, 2015

| CYP Now

Safeguarding work and education services at Wetherby young offender institution (YOI) have been praised by inspectors despite a rise in the number of violent incidents at the West Yorkshire establishment.

Custody use for youth knife crime more than doubles

News

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Young people convicted of a knife crime are twice as likely to receive a custodial sentence than they were seven years ago, latest figures have revealed.

YOTs boycott secure training centre over scathing inspection

News

Thursday, June 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) are refusing to send young people to a secure training centre that was blasted by inspectors for incidents of gross misconduct by staff, it has emerged.

Managers brand youth offending team stocktake ‘a cover for cuts'

News

Friday, May 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth offending team (YOT) managers have criticised a "biased" government review of their work, claiming it is simply concerned with earmarking potential cuts.