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

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.

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Police forces should only attend children's homes to tackle extreme incidents of young people's behaviour, the country's top police officer for children's issues has said.

Police training on children's issues undermined by 'lack of capacity'

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

| CYP Now

There has been no increase over the past year in the amount of training police personnel receive on working with under-18s, the country's top police officer for children and young people has conceded.

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) will develop a new system to intervene in unofficial Islamic schools where there are concerns about the way children are being taught, it has been announced.

One in three young people in custody are in care system

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Friday, October 2, 2015

| CYP Now

More than a third of under-18s in young offender institutions (YOI) are in the care system, it has emerged.

Children in mental health crisis still being held in police cells, government reveals

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Dozens of children and young people were detained in police cells under the Mental Health Act in the past year, the government has revealed.

Gove orders review of youth justice system

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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.

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Police officers dealing with under-18s should treat them as "children first" rather than potential criminals, the organisation representing police chiefs has said.

Youth reoffending on the increase

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

| CYP Now

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

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Runaway and missing children are being exploited by criminal gangs in order to expand inner city drug networks into county towns, a study has found.

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

| CYP Now

The police force criticised last year over its handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) allegations in Rotherham is not doing enough to improve its child protection procedures, a report has found.

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

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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.

Inspectors deem police child protection 'inadequate' in a third of cases

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

| CYP Now

The protection and safeguarding of vulnerable children is not being given high enough priority by police due to a lack of awareness of the issue, a review of practice in eight police forces has concluded.

Chief inspectors slam councils' CSE failings

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The chief inspectors of Ofsted and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) have launched a scathing attack on councils' failure to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Sexual offences against children rise by a third, finds NSPCC

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Reports of sexual offences against children have risen dramatically, latest figures obtained from police forces across England and Wales show.

Custody use for youth knife crime more than doubles

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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.

LSCBs in crisis due to funding shortfall, report reveals

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Monday, June 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Local safeguarding children's boards (LSCB) are at "breaking point" because their health, criminal justice and education members are failing to provide enough funding or attend meetings, according to a damning report.

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham Council is enlisting the help of victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) to help it improve the way it tackles abuse in the town.

Further fall in number of first-time young offenders

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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.

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice agencies are failing to give vulnerable girls the support they need because services are too geared towards helping boys, a newly formed pressure group has claimed.

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

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

Police training on children's issues undermined by 'lack of capacity'

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

One in three young people in custody are in care system

Children in mental health crisis still being held in police cells, government reveals

Gove orders review of youth justice system

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

Youth reoffending on the increase

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

Inspectors slam South Yorkshire Police over safeguarding failures

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

Inspectors deem police child protection 'inadequate' in a third of cases

Chief inspectors slam councils' CSE failings

Sexual offences against children rise by a third, finds NSPCC

Custody use for youth knife crime more than doubles

LSCBs in crisis due to funding shortfall, report reveals

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

Further fall in number of first-time young offenders

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

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