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Hakim Sillah: Weapons detection system at YOT building 'would have saved my son’s life'

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

| CYP Now

The mother of a young man stabbed to death at a knife awareness course held by his local youth offending team (YOT) said “my son would still be with me today” if a weapons detection system had been in use.

CYP Now investigation reveals third of YOTs use weapons detection systems

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Less than a third of youth offending services are using weapons detection systems on their own premises, a new investigation by CYP Now reveals.

Kirklees Youth Justice Service urged to improve by inspectors

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Friday, October 22, 2021

| CYP Now

Kirklees Youth Justice Service (YJS) has been rated “requires improvement to be good” by inspectors.

‘Outstanding’ ratings for two youth offending services

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Two local authorities have had their youth offending services (YOS) rated “outstanding” by inspectors.

One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

| CYP Now

Some children may be unnecessarily ending up with a criminal record because not all youth offending teams (YOTs) are offering diversion schemes, research suggests.

High caseloads impacting quality of youth offending work, inspectors warn

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Inspectors have warned that standards at a youth offending service are slipping due to low staffing levels and high caseloads, threatening to put children's safety at risk.

YOTs link up with university to help tackle reoffending

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Several youth offending teams (YOTs) have linked up with a university to help improve their work with young people, including developing psychological techniques to help them stop offending.

YJB pledges internal savings to prevent youth offending team cuts

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has said it has promised to find "significant savings" within the organisation as part of a deal with the government to ensure youth offending team (YOT) budgets are not cut this year.

Call for urgent review of video links for child defendants

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

| CYP Now

The increasing use of video links for court cases involving children could be affecting the chances of them getting a fair trial and should be urgently reviewed, children's charities and youth justice campaigners have said.

Youth offending teams to trial programme to address trauma

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Monday, April 9, 2018

| CYP Now

An initiative designed to help professionals better understand young offenders and build trust so they can provide more effective support is to be trialled among youth offending teams (YOTs) in England.

Inspectors praise YOT efforts to divert children from justice system

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams (YOTs) and police are doing effective work to keep children who have committed low-level offences out of the formal criminal justice system, a report has found.

LGA warns government against further youth offending cuts

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| CYP Now

Years of success at tackling youth crime will be threatened unless the government maintains funding for tackling and preventing youth offending, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Youth offending team to be based in £6.9m youth zone

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

| CYP Now

A youth offending team will be permanently based inside a proposed state-of-the-art £6.9m youth zone in what is believed to be the first arrangement of its kind in England.

Inspectors blame council failings for unsafe placement of young offenders

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

| CYP Now

Council failures are to blame for the placement of one in three homeless young offenders in unsuitable and unsafe accommodation across England and Wales, according to probation inspectors.

Labour urges action on youth knife crime

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Monday, December 4, 2017

| CYP Now

Labour has called on the government to deploy youth workers in hospitals to counter the growing number of young people dying from knife crime.

One in three police commissioners 'not funding youth crime prevention'

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Monday, November 27, 2017

| CYP Now

More than a third of police and crime commissioners do not fund youth crime prevention initiatives, a government study has found.

Children in care proceedings 'three times more likely to have offended'

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Young people involved with family court care proceedings are three times more likely to have offended than their peers, a study has found.

Probation chief proposes emotional trauma training for YOT staff

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Work with young offenders is being hampered by a lack of understanding of the devastating effect of trauma on young offenders' lives, according to the chief inspector of probation.

MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths

News

Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A new cross-party group of MPs and peers has been launched to investigate the rise in knife crime across the UK.

Knife crime initiative aims for expansion into youth custody

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

| CYP Now

Talks are under way to deploy medical students across all secure estate settings to warn young offenders of the dangers of knife crime and teach them how to give life-saving emergency support to victims.

Child arrest figures fall to new low

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Sunday, August 6, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of arrests of children in England and Wales have fallen to a new low - with a drop of 13.9 per cent in the space of a year.

Highly-rated youth offending service faces £500,000 cuts

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Friday, June 23, 2017

| CYP Now

One of the best performing youth offending services (YOS) in England and Wales is to undergo a full review to save £500,000.

Youth custody levels show annual rise for first time in nine years

News

Monday, June 12, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of young people held in custody has risen year-on-year for the first time since 2008, government figures show.

'Centre of excellence' to share youth justice best practice

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

| CYP Now

A youth offending team has linked up with a private technology firm to launch a centre of excellence to help spread best practice in youth justice work across England and Wales.

Truss strips YJB of youth custody role

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Friday, February 24, 2017

| CYP Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) will no longer be responsible for commissioning and overseeing the youth secure estate, with a new body being established to take on the role, it has been announced.

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Hakim Sillah: Weapons detection system at YOT building 'would have saved my son’s life'

CYP Now investigation reveals third of YOTs use weapons detection systems

Kirklees Youth Justice Service urged to improve by inspectors

‘Outstanding’ ratings for two youth offending services

One in 10 YOTs 'miss opportunities' to divert children from crime

High caseloads impacting quality of youth offending work, inspectors warn

YOTs link up with university to help tackle reoffending

YJB pledges internal savings to prevent youth offending team cuts

Call for urgent review of video links for child defendants

Youth offending teams to trial programme to address trauma

Inspectors praise YOT efforts to divert children from justice system

LGA warns government against further youth offending cuts

Youth offending team to be based in £6.9m youth zone

Inspectors blame council failings for unsafe placement of young offenders

Labour urges action on youth knife crime

One in three police commissioners 'not funding youth crime prevention'

Children in care proceedings 'three times more likely to have offended'

Probation chief proposes emotional trauma training for YOT staff

MPs to probe rise in knife crime in wake of spate of deaths

Knife crime initiative aims for expansion into youth custody

Child arrest figures fall to new low

Highly-rated youth offending service faces £500,000 cuts

Youth custody levels show annual rise for first time in nine years

'Centre of excellence' to share youth justice best practice

Truss strips YJB of youth custody role

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