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Trafford YOS maintains high standards

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Trafford Youth Offending Service (YOS) has been praised by inspectors for its work to protect the public and reduce reoffending.

Children's home standards revisions fail to convince providers

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's residential care providers remain concerned new regulations for the sector are too ambiguous despite government changes.

Judges criticise benefit cap but reject bid to overturn the policy

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The Supreme Court has criticised the government's benefit cap for depriving children of the "basic necessities of life" but has ruled out overturning the policy.

Trafficked girl wins age dispute case against council

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

| CYP Now

A Nigerian girl has won a legal battle against a London borough that claimed she was an adult following an age assessment.

Government under no obligation to trace restraint victims, judge rules

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

| CYP Now

The government will not be ordered to trace children who could be entitled to compensation for being unlawfully restrained in secure training centres (STCs), a judge has ruled.

Improve trust in the asylum system to end child detention, urges report

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Friday, December 10, 2010

| CYP Now

Improving support and management of asylum seekers to ensure they have more faith in the system is the best approach to ending child detention, a report has found.

Unlawful force contributed to Adam Rickwood's death, inquest finds

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

| CYP Now

The jury in the second inquest into the death of young offender Adam Rickwood has ruled that an unlawful use of force by professionals contributed to his death.

Government orders review of stop and search policy

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has ordered a rethink over the police's use of stop and search, in a bid to halt its disproportionate targeting of young black and Asian men.

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

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Monday, October 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Pre-proceedings case work in six councils piloting new ways of dealing with care applications cut the number of cases going to court by a quarter, analysis has shown.

Peers defeat 'annoyance' injunction proposals

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Friday, January 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The House of Lords has blocked government proposals that could have seen injunctions served against children as young as 10 for playing noisily outdoors.

Welsh care reforms place post-18 duty on councils

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Monday, February 3, 2014

| CYP Now

The Welsh government has defended proposed care reforms that it says will place new duties on local authorities to provide funding for post-18 foster care.

Government rejects calls for reforms to young migrant support

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has rejected a raft of recommendations from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) surrounding the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children.

YJB toolkit aims to cut youth reoffending rates

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

| CYP Now

A new resource that helps youth offending teams (YOTs) analyse in depth offenders' behaviour in an attempt to prevent further offences being committed is to be launched next week.

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The effectiveness of a specialist court to tackle parental substance misuse could be undermined as a result of the introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, academics have warned.

Call for more continuity in youth court system

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Young offenders should be assigned a magistrate who monitors their rehabilitation and deals with any subsequent offences, a criminal justice expert has said.

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

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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.

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

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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.

Children's Society exposes failings in advocacy services for disabled children

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Monday, September 26, 2011

| CYP Now

The Children's Society is calling for an overhaul of advocacy support for disabled children after latest research showed widespread problems with current services.

Legal aid and sentencing bill receives Royal Assent

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

| CYP Now

Landmark changes to the youth justice system are set to come into effect over the next year after the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (Laspo) Bill received Royal Assent today (1 May).

Refugee children missing out on legal advice, says report

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Professionals who work with refugee and migrant children are struggling to access legal advice on behalf of young clients, research by the Coram Children's Legal Centre has found.

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Trafford YOS maintains high standards

Children's home standards revisions fail to convince providers

Judges criticise benefit cap but reject bid to overturn the policy

Trafficked girl wins age dispute case against council

Government under no obligation to trace restraint victims, judge rules

Improve trust in the asylum system to end child detention, urges report

Unlawful force contributed to Adam Rickwood's death, inquest finds

Government orders review of stop and search policy

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

Peers defeat 'annoyance' injunction proposals

Welsh care reforms place post-18 duty on councils

Government rejects calls for reforms to young migrant support

YJB toolkit aims to cut youth reoffending rates

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

Call for more continuity in youth court system

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

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

Children's Society exposes failings in advocacy services for disabled children

Legal aid and sentencing bill receives Royal Assent

Refugee children missing out on legal advice, says report

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