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Uncertainty looms over children's lead role at ACPO as McPherson announces retirement

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

| CYP Now

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has refused to confirm whether there will be a replacement lead for children and young people within the organisation after it emerged that Ian McPherson will retire in the new year.

Call to tackle police violence against young people

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

| CYP Now

Police officers should receive specific training on how to communicate and deal with children and young people, as part of efforts to tackle the use of violence against them, a children's rights organisation has said. ?

Call for clampdown on 'needless' arrests of girls

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

| CYP Now

A prison campaign group has called for police to deal with more girls informally, suggesting that tens of thousands are arrested needlessly each year.

Youth justice roundup

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

| CYP Now

Troubled families progress, inspection of young offender institution for young women, and child sexual exploitation, all in the news in the past seven days.

Inspectorates to assess alcohol role in girl offending

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Criminal justice inspectorates in England and Wales are to carry out an investigation into the effectiveness of services that work with girl offenders.

Daily roundup: Discrimination, adoption advertising, and children's hospital review

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Monday, February 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Staff survey reveals apparent increase in discrimination at Department for Education; council launches cinema advertising campaign; and probe ordered into deaths at Bristol children's hospital, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Adoption, youth commissioner, and sexting

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Wales to get National Adoption Service; youth commissioner probe launched in Kent; and concerns over "sexting" in Devon, all in the news today.

Labour Party Conference: Devolve youth offending budgets, says shadow justice secretary

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Power and funding to tackle youth offending should be devolved to local areas, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan has said.?

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

| CYP Now

Youth workers should receive basic mental health training as part of a shake-up of services in order to support young people in gangs, MPs have been told.

Child custody campaign ends after five years

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

| CYP Now

A high-profile campaign to reduce numbers of children in custody is to conclude by the end of the year when its funding finishes, it has been confirmed.

Daily roundup: HPV, hospital data sharing, and whistleblowing row in Kingston

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Friday, February 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Call for the HPV vaccine to be given to boys, hospitals fail to share data on gun and knife crime, and Kingston's former director of children's services under fire over 'cover-up' allegations, all in the news today.

Government warned against using payment-by-results in youth justice

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

| CYP Now

The government has been warned that payment-by-results in the youth justice system could have a negative impact on young offenders, after Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to extend use of the concept.

Commons committee votes to proceed with abolition of YJB

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| CYP Now

Hopes that the Youth Justice Board will avoid the axe have been dealt a blow after a group of MPs voted to proceed with its abolition.

Youth prisons have capacity to cope with rise in remands after riots, confirms YJB chief

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Youth jails have more than enough capacity to deal with an expected surge in demand as a result of riots breaking out across England, the head of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said.

Inspectorates slam youth offending agencies for resettlement failings

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Friday, March 13, 2015

| CYP Now

Probation, education and health inspectors have criticised poor-quality support for young offenders when released from custody.

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.

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.

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.

MPs set out conditions for transfer of youth justice responsibilities

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

| CYP Now

A report by the justice select committee on the proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board has called for certain conditions to be followed if functions are taken over by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

Poverty central to the summer riots, young people claim

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Monday, December 19, 2011

| CYP Now

Young people believe that poverty was one of the key reasons behind the August riots, a survey by The Children's Society has found.

Daily roundup: Council sued, no action against Paris Brown and youth cuts

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Monday, April 22, 2013

| CYP Now

Rochdale faces legal action over care comments; no further action against former youth police and crime commissioner, and half of youth service jobs to go in Warwickshire, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Youth violence falls, homelessness guidance and job losses

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Fewer victims of serious youth violence in London; advice to improve the health of homeless young people, and youth work jobs at risk, all in the news today.

Treat 17-year-olds in police custody as children, court rules

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

| CYP Now

The High Court has ruled that 17-year-olds who are arrested and taken into police custody should be treated as children.

Medics join effort to tackle serious youth violence

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Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Doctors in hospitals across England and Wales are to help tackle serious youth violence as part of a project that teaches gang members how to save their friends' lives if they are shot or stabbed.