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It's time to respect children's rights

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
    • | CYP Now
You wait ages for one 20th anniversary, then three come along at once. We've just marked the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1989 Children Act. And this week it is 20 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child came into existence.

Alternatives to custody need to be found

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2007
    • | CYP Now
In April this year, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted the resolution that national action plans should be formed to reduce the imprisonment of juveniles.

The next commissioner needs bite

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | CYP Now
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has fired the starting gun to recruit a children's commissioner for England to succeed Sir Al Aynsley-Green early next year.

Hidden costs of payment-by-results

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 5, 2010
    • | CYP Now
We are in an age of austerity where outcomes are critical. So it is difficult to take issue in raw principle with the government's desire to commission more public services on a payment-by-results basis.

Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 18, 2010
    • | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.

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.

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