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A five-point plan for urgent youth custody reform

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2024
  • | CYP Now
“Youth custody needs urgent reform,” shouted a recent headline. They were not the words of a children’s right lobbyist or penal reformer, but from the newly appointed chief executive of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), Stephanie Roberts-Bibby. A voice from inside government. This is surely significant.

Solutions to failing youth court on ministers' desks

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Elizabeth Haslam, a former nurse, founded the Michael Sieff Foundation in memory of her late husband in 1987. Immediate motivation came from the publication of the report into the death of Jasmine Beckford some four years earlier. Jasmine had been beaten and starved to death by her stepfather.

Make Oakhill review public to shape youth custody

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 24, 2022
  • | CYP Now
I met Chris in 2009. In his early 20s, Chris had been recruited to work at Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Previously a youth worker, he said he surprised himself by his career move into youth custody.

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