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Recognise failure for successful secure schools

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 30, 2021
    • | CYP Now
This April would have been the 25th anniversary of the opening of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC). Like most, if not all, secure establishments it had a rocky start but represented the beginning of a major reform in youth justice. As we await the birth of the new secure school on the site of the original STC it is worth reflecting on the past 25 years.

Prevention, not detention, must come first

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
Children's Secretary Ed Balls last week told CYP Now that he wants to "strengthen the role the youth justice system can play in preventing youth crime." His words were welcome. But they need to be backed up with action.

Cost of custody should be devolved

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The current system of placing children in prison operates under a perverse financial incentive. Local authorities, which are responsible for a range of prevention and early intervention work to divert the young from crime, are essentially rewarded for their failures. If children are sentenced to custody, they no longer pick up the tab for their welfare.

Focus of spending must be balanced

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It's official: the UK spends more money on child welfare and education than the average market economy. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report out last week, we spend just over 90,000 per child from birth to 18 compared to an OECD average among 30 member countries of just under 80,000.

Justice system needs to recognise impact of care

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Intersectionality is a concept to describe the interconnected nature of social categorisations as they apply to a given individual or group, which create interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Outstanding challenge for Ofsted

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 1, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted-bashing has been on the rise for several months. Cries of exasperation over the way the children's services inspectorate goes about its business have come in fits and starts from all quarters.

Trial by media

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 8, 2010
    • | CYP Now
So what might be said about Jon Venables that has not been said already?

Young people in custody matter too

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 1, 2009
    • | CYP Now
A government-commissioned review into the use of restraint in the youth prison system reported last December that force must be used as a "last resort".

Tough measures can be the most supportive

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now's coverage on a century of youth justice at the end of last year (4-10 December 2008) made me wonder how present-day youth policies will be interpreted in the future.

A moving parting gift from young offenders

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | CYP Now
As my board membership of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) was coming to an end last month, I paid a final visit to Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution Parc, near Bridgend.

Surviving on the inside

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 12, 2010
    • | CYP Now
I smiled at the recent finding by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons that a significant number of prisoners declare themselves to be Muslims because that way they get better food.

Shhh... Every Child Matters lives on

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 9, 2010
    • | CYP Now
Watch out, the language police are about. An internal Department for Education memo lists 30 terms the government wants consigned to history, and the words that should be used in their place. Many relate directly to children's services.

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.

Commissioner for Wales is up to the challenge

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It was an "exceedingly drawn-out" appointments process, according to one Welsh politician. But Keith Towler came through the interviews, both with young people and politicians, to secure the position of children's commissioner for Wales, just under a year after the untimely death of his predecessor Peter Clarke.

Steps towards child-friendly justice

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 8, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Council of Europe is drawing up guidelines on child-friendly justice for member states, as we reveal this week. They cover not just the youth justice system but all elements of justice, from the family courts to care proceedings.

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