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Call for clampdown on 'needless' arrests of girls

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.

Haringey "missed opportunities" to prevent abuse of toddler

News

Friday, October 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Police, social workers and medical staff could have prevented the abuse of a toddler at the hands of his family in Haringey, a report has found.

Rotherham: Twelve new abuse victims come forward

News

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Twelve more victims of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham have come forward since a damning report was published last week.

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

News

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.

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

News

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

News

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.

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

News

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.

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

News

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people who have died in custody in recent years haven been let down by "systemic failures", a study has found.

YJB chair signals early intervention drive

News

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

| CYP Now

The chair of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said that persuading police and crime commissioners of the importance of funding early intervention work will be one of his immediate priorities.

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

News

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.

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.

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.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

News

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

News

Friday, February 27, 2015

| CYP Now

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

LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

News

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.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

News

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.

NSPCC presses for extension of police child protection training

News

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: Spending cuts, childcare reforms and drug mules

News

Monday, January 6, 2014

| CYP Now

George Osborne warns of further spending cuts; government advisers urge ministers to rethink childcare reforms; and gangs use children to carry drugs out of London, all in the news today.

Big rise in number of child trafficking victims

News

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of British children believed to be victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation has more than doubled in the space of a year.

No evidence of Home Office abuse cover up, inquiry finds

News

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A review led by NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless has found no evidence that Home Office officials covered up allegations of child sexual abuse over a 20-year period.

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

News

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| CYP Now

More needs to be done to keep children in care out of the criminal justice system, the country's top police officer for children and young people has said.

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

News

Thursday, April 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Durham has become the first area in the country to adopt a US training initiative to help police officers and other professionals to better identify child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

News

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.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

News

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.

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

News

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

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

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Call for clampdown on 'needless' arrests of girls

Haringey "missed opportunities" to prevent abuse of toddler

Rotherham: Twelve new abuse victims come forward

Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

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

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

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

YJB chair signals early intervention drive

MPs warn of FGM 'crisis'

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

Daily roundup: Sexual grooming, palliative care and youth offending

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Children's services joint inspections to begin in the autumn

LSCB chief warns of safeguarding risks from government review

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

NSPCC presses for extension of police child protection training

Daily roundup: Spending cuts, childcare reforms and drug mules

Big rise in number of child trafficking victims

No evidence of Home Office abuse cover up, inquiry finds

Call to keep looked-after children out of justice system

Durham adopts training for professionals to spot CSE

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

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