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Youth Justice Conference: Local funding advances Youth Justice Board prevention drive

31 May 2006, Young People Now

Local communities have pledged an estimated £37m to supplement the Youth Justice Board (YJB)'s crime-prevention fund over the next two years, Young People Now has learned. The match funding for...

Youth Justice Conference: Targets stop police deterrent action

31 May 2006, Young People Now

The head of the Youth Justice Board believes police forces are being prevented from doing crime-prevention work by government targets. Rod Morgan last week told Young People Now's youth justice...

Youth Justice Conference: Progress needed on custody figures

31 May 2006, Young People Now

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) considered scrapping its target to reduce the number of young people in custody by 10 per cent because it is so frustrated with the lack...

Youth Justice Conference: Parenting orders set to be extended

31 May 2006, Young People Now

The range of organisations that can apply for parenting orders to be issued is to be extended from January 2007. Louise Casey, head of the Respect Task Force at the...

Youth Services: Future of services causes sector rift

31 May 2006, Young People Now

A gulf has emerged between the Community and Youth Workers' Union and The National Youth Agency (NYA) over the future of youth services. Union general secretary Doug Nicholls has highlighted...

Youth Offending: Delinquent groups blamed in study

31 May 2006, Young People Now

Six per cent of young people in England and Wales are involved in "delinquent youth groups" and are responsible for a fifth of all youth offending, according to a Home...

In Brief: Giving the finger

31 May 2006, Young People Now

Eleven-year-old Jessica Newton and her sister Gemma, 13, display the gory results of a session with a make-up artist from TV show Casualty as part of the opening of a...

In Brief: Sexual health

31 May 2006, Young People Now

Three hundred and forty-one abortions were carried out on under-16s in Scotland last year, compared with 309 in 2004. www.isdscotland.org/abortions....

In Brief: Education

31 May 2006, Young People Now

The education and inspections bill, which includes a duty on local authorities to provide services for young people, has passed through the Commons....

In Brief: Youth justice

31 May 2006, Young People Now

An HM Inspectorate of Probation report identified provision gaps at Windsor and Maidenhead Youth Offending Team, but said overall work is positive....