Letters to the Editor: Ministers must accelerate prison closures
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Opinion
- Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | CYP Now
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Tackle under-use of secure children’s homes
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Opinion
- Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | CYP Now
Charlie Taylor produced the most comprehensive report on youth justice in 2016, shortly before being appointed as chair of the Youth Justice Board.
Custody staff need crisis communication training
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Opinion
- Tuesday, September 29, 2020 | CYP Now
The Independent review of the use of pain-inducing techniques – published over the summer – in short hasn’t told us anything we didn’t know before and the heart of the recommendations are simply echoes of previous reports that still haven’t been enacted.
Oasis Restore must be fresh start for children
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | CYP Now
Steve Chalke, the founder and leader of the Oasis Charitable Trust, is someone for a challenge.
Be bold and make youth custody education-focused
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Opinion
- Tuesday, March 14, 2017 | CYP Now
Justice Secretary Liz Truss has, in recent weeks, made a sweeping range of decisions in relation to the prison system.
Abolition of YJB is difficult to justify
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Opinion
- Monday, October 18, 2010 | CYP Now
The government's decision to scrap the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in last week's "bonfire of the quangos" is bewildering. In recent years, since the welcome demise of New Labour's Respect agenda, the YJB has helped to reduce first-time entrants to the criminal justice system and the youth custody population has come down.
Collaboration can prevent cock-ups
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Opinion
- Monday, September 20, 2010 | CYP Now
The botched handover of responsibility to local authorities for the education of young offenders is quite simply a fiasco.
Difficult questions raised by the restraint of young offenders
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Opinion
- Monday, July 26, 2010 | CYP Now
The revelations about the Physical Control in Care manual, governing methods of restraint for young people in secure training centres, are shocking.
Surviving on the inside
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Opinion
- Monday, July 12, 2010 | CYP Now
I smiled at the recent finding by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons that a significant number of prisoners declare themselves to be Muslims because that way they get better food.