Labour plans youth hubs to help stop knife crime ‘that is killing our children’
Labour would set up 90 new youth hubs to give teenagers the “best start in life” and to “stop the knife crime that is killing our children”, Yvette Cooper has
Read MoreLabour would set up 90 new youth hubs to give teenagers the “best start in life” and to “stop the knife crime that is killing our children”, Yvette Cooper has
Read MoreThe Government must ensure lessons are swiftly learned from a series of self-harm related deaths in prison over the last three years, ministers have been warned. There have been 10
Read MoreThe family of a woman who took her own life in a young offenders institution are receiving partial legal aid for representation at an inquiry into her death, a court
Read MoreA study has found 80% of young men in a young offenders institution in Scotland had at least one significant head injury in their lifetimes. The study, led by researchers
Read MoreA joint fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is to be held into the deaths of two young people who took their own lives while serving sentences at a young offenders institution.
Read MoreLife for children in youth custody is filled with “palpable tension and paranoia” brought on by the threat of violence, frequently cancelled family visits and few chances to build positive
Read MorePolice need “draconian” powers to carry out strip-searches of children, a Home Office minister said as she rejected calls to outlaw the “abhorrent” practice. Sarah Dines (pictured) was accused by
Read MoreA youth has been jailed for 10 years for stabbing an Afghan refugee to death in a Twickenham park, hours after being sentenced for having a knife. Hazrat Wali, 18,
Read MoreVulnerable young people are being failed at a cost of £23 billion a year, MPs have warned, as they called on the Government to report annually for the first time
Read MoreThe pandemic making teenagers “more vulnerable” has led to a disproportionate increase in the killing of young people by knives, a charity said. According to a report by the Office
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