Looking at the serious and negative risks that face some adolescents in the UK today, focusing on neglect, running away, sexual exploitation and offending. Considered together, common themes can be
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Scotland’s Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has announced a near £1 million funding package for three leading voluntary organisations working to reduce reoffending. The funding will allow Apex Scotland, SACRO and
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Children who are sent to jail could be more likely to commit sex offences later in life, prison reform campaigners have warned. A report by the Commission on Sex in
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Inmates at a jail for teenagers represent 48 different gangs, inspectors have discovered, fuelling a “constant juggling” by prison officers to keep the boys apart. There were high levels of
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Young girls at risk of sexual exploitation are falling through the gaps because youth offending teams do not have the support they need from police and social care to take
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Children in custody have painted a bleak picture of the youth prison estate after an annual inspection revealed a “deterioration” in the vast majority of responses to a far-reaching survey.
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Probation staff and youth offending teams needed to tighten up their child protection procedures and join up better with other agencies, said Paul McDowell, Chief Inspector of Probation. His comments
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A Leicestershire young offenders prison has been heavily criticised as “unsafe” in a new report which exposes concerns over bullying, violence and self-harm. The report, published by Nick Hardwick, Chief
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A family court judge has warned of a “terrible national shortage” of places in secure units for young offenders. Judge Sarah Singleton said there was a “gross shortage of resource”
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Children who have committed low-level offences but have stopped breaking the law should have their criminal record wiped clean when they turn 18, an inquiry into youth justice has recommended.
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