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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Friday, February 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Uncertainty over the future of serious case reviews (SCRs) is damaging local safeguarding arrangements, local safeguarding children board (LSCB) leaders have warned.

Services that divert young people away from the justice system given financial boost

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Friday, April 1, 2011

| CYP Now

Moves to divert young people with mental health and substance misuse problems away from the criminal justice system towards support services have received a boost following government investment of 2m.

Met Police outlines strategy to combat gang crime

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

| CYP Now

Improved joint working between police, local authorities and charities will form a key plank of a drive to tackle gang crime in the capital, it has been announced.

Met Police rethinks use of stop and search

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Friday, January 13, 2012

| CYP Now

The use of stop and search is set to be reduced in a bid to improve relations with the black community, the Metropolitan Police has announced.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Legal Update: Rights of 17-year-olds in custody

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Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

A recent case has ruled that 17-year-olds be treated as children when arrested and held in police custody, says Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Daily roundup: School admissions, access to GPs, and teaching assistants

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Monday, June 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Top state schools are increasingly exclusive finds Sutton Trust study, health reforms must improve access to GPs says the NCB, and the government could scrap teaching assistants, all in the news today.

School police officers cut youth crime

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Basing police officers in schools reduces youth crime and antisocial behaviour, according to a report.

Daily roundup: School uniforms, A-Levels, and court cases

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Charity calls for school uniforms to be ditched, the proportion of top A-Level grades is down on last year, and a minister wants more young offenders dealt with in youth courts, all in the news today.

NSPCC presses for extension of police child protection training

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Monday, August 19, 2013

| CYP Now

The NSPCC has called for all police officers to receive in-depth child protection training after it emerged that members of a new police taskforce will receive instruction on the issue.

Daily roundup: Library closures, free childcare, and DNA swabs

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Monday, September 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's laureate criticises government failure to stop library closures; Labour outlines free childcare plans; and Welsh police have taken the DNA of 5,000 children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Antisocial behaviour, free schools, and child detention

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Monday, October 14, 2013

| CYP Now

Nuisance injunctions will "promote intolerance of youth"; Labour backs free schools; and hundreds of children locked up in police cells each week, all in the news today.

Lin Hinnigan named as YJB chief executive

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Monday, December 3, 2012

| CYP Now

A former social worker and educational psychologist has been selected as the new chief executive of the Youth Justice Board, it has been announced.

Major young offender resettlement scheme announced for London

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Crime reduction charity Nacro has won a contract to run a high profile payment-by-results resettlement scheme for young offenders in London.

Call for custody decisions to be scrutinised to improve safety

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Decisions on custody placements for young offenders should be subject to inspection in order to improve safety for under-18s in prison, a charity has said.

News roundup: Forced marriages, school places appeals and higher targets for primary schools

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Up to 250 children helped by forced marriage team; concerns that school places appeals system is "unfair", and primary schools told to achieve higher standards, all in the news today.

Boris Johnson bids for control of youth justice

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

| CYP Now

London mayor Boris Johnson has outlined plans to lobby government to give him more control of youth justice policy in the capital.

Response to last summer's riots 'criminalised young people'

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

| CYP Now

Young people have been condemned to a future without hope as a result of getting a criminal record in connection with last summer's riots, it has been claimed.

Former YJB director made to drop police and crime commissioner bid

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

| CYP Now

A former director of strategy at the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has stepped down as a police and crime commissioner candidate because of a criminal conviction he acquired as a minor.

Gang hotspots failing to confront young people's health issues

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

| CYP Now

More than 80 per cent of England's gang "hotspots" have no strategy in place to tackle the health problems that contribute to youth and gang violence, according to a report.

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LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Services that divert young people away from the justice system given financial boost

Met Police outlines strategy to combat gang crime

Met Police rethinks use of stop and search

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Legal Update: Rights of 17-year-olds in custody

Daily roundup: School admissions, access to GPs, and teaching assistants

School police officers cut youth crime

Daily roundup: School uniforms, A-Levels, and court cases

NSPCC presses for extension of police child protection training

Daily roundup: Library closures, free childcare, and DNA swabs

Daily roundup: Antisocial behaviour, free schools, and child detention

Lin Hinnigan named as YJB chief executive

Major young offender resettlement scheme announced for London

Call for custody decisions to be scrutinised to improve safety

News roundup: Forced marriages, school places appeals and higher targets for primary schools

Boris Johnson bids for control of youth justice

Response to last summer's riots 'criminalised young people'

Former YJB director made to drop police and crime commissioner bid

Gang hotspots failing to confront young people's health issues

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