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Youth custody figures hit new low

Thursday, June 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of under-18s in custody have fallen to a new low, but black and ethnic minority young people now make up four out of every 10 of those detained, latest figures reveal.

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

| CYP Now

A national action plan is urgently needed to tackle the "growing crisis" of female genital mutilation (FGM), MPs have said.

YJB moves to improve services for girls who offend

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board is calling on youth offending teams (YOTs) to revise the way they work with female offenders.

Decline in school police presence raises concerns over pupil safety

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

CYP Now investigation reveals more than a third of police forces have cut the number of dedicated officers attached to schools so that half of force areas no longer have a single officer based on a school campus.

Exclusive: Number of police officers in schools declines amid safety concerns

News

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

| CYP Now

More than one in three police forces in England has cut back on numbers of officers based in schools since 2012, an investigation by CYP Now has revealed.

Decline in gun deaths linked with improved strategy on gang crime

News

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

| CYP Now

"Sophisticated approaches" to tackling serious youth violence are starting to show results, a youth justice academic has claimed after figures revealed a slight decline in gun-related deaths over the past five years.

Major study finds relationship between youth crime and morality

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

| CYP Now

Young people who commit little or no crime display greater self-control and possess personal morals that fit well with the law, a major study by academics at Cambridge University has found.

Inspectors praise youth offending teams in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

| CYP Now

Work by youth offending team staff in both Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire has been praised following separate inspections.

Restraint and self-harm incidents on the rise in youth jails

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people in custody are being increasingly subjected to restraint, while incidents of self-harm are also on the rise, despite falling numbers of under-18s in the secure estate.

Daily roundup: Bedroom tax, What Works Network, and strip-searching

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Monday, March 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Disabled children start legal bid on room-sharing plans; policy advice network launches, and concerns over prevalence of strip-searching in youth custody, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Sexual exploitation, joint working, and College of Social Work

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

| CYP Now

200 sexually exploited children are on care waiting lists, MSPs say care systems must work better, and College of Social Work boss named, all in the news today.

Extend caution review to under-18s, government told

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Youth offending team bosses have urged the government to extend its review of police cautions to investigate their use with under-18s.

Daily roundup: Support for young mums, funding for disabled children and youth justice

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Family Nurse Partnerships extended, funding for disabled children renewed and new youth justice chief sets out her aims, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

News

Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Report blames sexual grooming of young girls on police failings; MPs call for fairer children's palliative care funding; and a youth offending service in Teeside wins praise, all in the news today.

Home Office bids to increase gang injunction use on under-18s

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

| CYP Now

The Home Office has vowed to increase the use of controversial gang injunctions on under-18s after it emerged they have been used just twice in hotspot areas.

Minister rejects parental responsibility for crimes of under-10s

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has dismissed a call for parents to be held to account for acts committed by children who are under the age of criminal responsibility.

Cameron calls for action to tackle gang culture

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has called for action against those involved in gangs and greater discipline in schools in the wake of riots throughout England.

Child arrests fall but violence in custody rises

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of under-18s being arrested is continuing to fall, but levels of violence and self-harm in youth custody are on the rise, government figures show.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Children's services joint inspections to begin in the autumn

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Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Targeted multi-agency inspections of local authority children's services are to be introduced later this year.

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Youth custody figures hit new low

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

YJB moves to improve services for girls who offend

Decline in school police presence raises concerns over pupil safety

Exclusive: Number of police officers in schools declines amid safety concerns

Decline in gun deaths linked with improved strategy on gang crime

Major study finds relationship between youth crime and morality

Inspectors praise youth offending teams in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire

Restraint and self-harm incidents on the rise in youth jails

Daily roundup: Bedroom tax, What Works Network, and strip-searching

Daily roundup: Sexual exploitation, joint working, and College of Social Work

Extend caution review to under-18s, government told

Daily roundup: Support for young mums, funding for disabled children and youth justice

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Home Office bids to increase gang injunction use on under-18s

Minister rejects parental responsibility for crimes of under-10s

Cameron calls for action to tackle gang culture

Child arrests fall but violence in custody rises

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Children's services joint inspections to begin in the autumn

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