The youth justice sector has welcomed the decision to split responsibility for youth justice between the new Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Ministry of Justice. A spokesman for the new department said the move was to create a "strategic approach" in policy for young people. Mike Thomas, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers, said: "There have been calls for some time for the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to come out of the Ministry of Justice and move across to the now defunct Department for Education and Skills but it wasn't going to happen. This...