Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2023 (second edition)Found: . • Youth Offending Teams / Youth Services. • Local Community & Partnership Functions - Community Partnership
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023Found: Yet, as I heard very clearly from young delegates at the inaugural Scottish Rural and Islands Youth
Mentions:
1: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) Government’s taking on board my repeated calls—and those of Shetland’s previous members of the Scottish Youth - Speech Link
2: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) transport responsibly.Although there are concerns across the country that free bus passes are fuelling youth - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Kevin (SNP - Aberdeen Central) reasonable fare.Alongside that, our public transport needs to facilitate customers getting into our town centres - Speech Link
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitionsFound: on Climate Action having a target on effective planning and management including focusing on women, youth
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: Green claims: CMA secures landmark changes from ASOS, Boohoo and AsdaFound: brands; we expanded into different categories; we built our app; we added international fulfilment centres
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of moving children from youth offenders institutes into secure children homes.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The youth secure estate currently has three distinct types of establishments: young offender institutions (YOIs), secure training centres and secure children’s homes (SCHs). We will also open a Secure School this spring, which is also a registered SCH. This enables the Youth Custody Service (YCS) to make placements that are best suited to the needs of the individual child or young person. SCHs accommodate boys and girls aged between 10 and 17 who have complex needs. These placements can be made by local authorities. In addition, children and young people who have been sentenced or remanded to custody may be placed by the YCS in eight of the 14 SCHs in England and Wales. A SCH can decline to accept a placement if it feels it is not able to meet the needs of the individual child, or if accepting the placement would inhibit its ability to meet the needs of other children already accommodated at the home.
The YCS Placement Team considers each child’s placement on a case-by-case basis. It reviews information provided by the child’s Youth Offending Team, looking at the child’s needs, as well as any possible risks to, or originating with the child. The team will also try to consider geographical location and proximity to home as part of their decision making, though other factors may take precedence in terms of decision making. This evidence, together with the child’s immediate presentation following the court appearance, is considered in order to identify a placement that will meet the best interests of the child.
Children and young people are likely to be more suited to one type of accommodation than another. For example, a SCH placement could be more suitable for children with a lower level of maturity, or with complex needs that require a higher level of support; a YOI placement might be considered appropriate where the young person has been observed to pose a risk towards peers and/or members of staff, or needs to access a specific programme or programmes provided at the YOI.
Mar. 26 2024
Source Page: School census 2024 to 2025: technical informationFound: defaulted to ‘true’ within school systems to reduce the burden of data entry by schools. 4.3.2.5 Youth
Mar. 26 2024
Source Page: Review of civil legal aid: Comparative analysis of legal aid systems reportFound: • Law centres, legal clinics, and wider civil society also provide legal support.
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: Similarly with youth justice, it has been well documented, and it is quite a positive thing, that we
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Inquiry: Safeguarding vulnerable claimantsFound: That is all the Jobcentres and service centres across the south of England.