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'County lines' child trafficker convicted in landmark case

Friday, October 5, 2018

| CYP Now

A drug dealer has been jailed for 14 years in the first successful prosecution under legislation to tackle "county lines" crime, in which gangs exploit vulnerable children to establish drug networks.

Two thirds of police forces report issue with 'county lines' child exploitation

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Children are being exploited by drugs gangs through so-called "county lines" crime, in at least two thirds of police force areas a National Crime Agency report has found.

Children to be bailed rather than detained in custody

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| CYP Now

Children who have been charged with an offence will be released on bail "whenever possible" as part of Home Office efforts to reduce the number of young people being detained in police stations.

Inspectors slam Met Police for 'inexcusable' child protection failures

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Friday, November 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Fundamental deficiencies in the way the Metropolitan Police (Met) understands and responds to child abuse and child sexual exploitation (CSE) are placing children in London at risk, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has warned.

Children 'left traumatised' by police raids

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Monday, November 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Children who are at home during police raids to arrest a parent or family should get more support to help them deal with the trauma, a charity has said.

First multi-agency child protection inspection criticises health services

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Health services have come in for criticism for failing to properly assess risks to children following the first joint inspection of child protection across health, social care and criminal justice services.

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| CYP Now

Children in residential care are being criminalised at excessively high rates compared with other boys and girls, a campaign group has claimed.

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

Police are failing to properly protect missing children from potential abuse, a report has found.

Self-harm in youth custody on the rise

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Friday, January 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Young people in custody are increasingly likely to harm themselves, latest figures show.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Police, councils, youth services, and schools should be working with children as young as seven to prevent them getting involved with gangs or violent youth crime, it has been claimed.

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

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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 reformer: Olivia Pinkney, national lead for children and young people's policing

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Olivia Pinkney, the National Police Chiefs Council's lead officer for children and young people.

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.

Tackling radicalisation must not deter radical thinking

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

At election time, I wrote about the lack of inspiration, radicalisation or excitement among young people in Britain. Well, at least that is changing. Whatever you might feel about Jeremy Corbyn, you can't deny that there is a different mood about today. Social media is lively and bubbling about politics, and young people are in the middle of real debates about real issues. It feels like Scotland did last year.

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.

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.

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.

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs have criticised Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) for their handling of the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

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'County lines' child trafficker convicted in landmark case

Two thirds of police forces report issue with 'county lines' child exploitation

Children to be bailed rather than detained in custody

Inspectors slam Met Police for 'inexcusable' child protection failures

Children 'left traumatised' by police raids

First multi-agency child protection inspection criticises health services

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

Self-harm in youth custody on the rise

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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

Police chief urges leniency around children's home incidents

Police reformer: Olivia Pinkney, national lead for children and young people's policing

One in three young people in custody are in care system

Tackling radicalisation must not deter radical thinking

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

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

Youth justice system 'fails vulnerable girls'

MPs criticise Ofsted and DfE for 'Trojan Horse' failings

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