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Action needed to help girls in custody

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 24, 2019
    • | CYP Now
A decade ago, there was an average of 166 girls in custody at any one time. Now there are only 28, a more rapid fall than that for boys. This is good news, of course, but a recent report by Pippa Goodfellow, director of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, highlights why there is no room for complacency. Here are three reasons why.

Naming child offenders harms rehabilitation

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
The recent naming of the 16-year-old child who murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on the Isle of Bute raises once more very uncomfortable issues about the naming of child defendants in criminal cases.

Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

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