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<img alt="Supreme Court ruling could help thousands of children threatened with DBS disclosure" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/89912d0b-ec27-4c10-8a2b-8899d21d611e/2/form-320x198.jpg" />
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The Supreme Court heard the case of a young person whose career was blighted by the threatened disclosure of two youth reprimands, imposed when he was a young teenager. Such disclosures on Disclosure...
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Published: 31 January 2019
<img alt="Charity calls for leniency in the sentencing of young adults" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/5d59972d-c70d-4982-bd6b-29ee7d112227/3/courtcase-320x198.JPG" />
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The call for a different approach to offenders aged between 18 and 25, comes from the Howard League for Penal Reform, which claims this group of prisoners is particularly vulnerable to risk of harm. The...
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Published: 31 January 2019
<img alt="Children's commissioner: Children are 'afterthought' for social media giants" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/55896ad7-dc96-4ed8-add3-1acabd2b77fe/2/annlongfieldbyalexdeverill-320x198.jpg" />
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In an open letter to Facebook, which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Pinterest, Anne Longfield said social media companies had expanded rapidly in recent years, and she questioned...
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Published: 30 January 2019
<img alt="Medway STC staff still using painful restraint, inspection finds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/ba0ae41d-846a-4962-a115-d0e67267a702/2/030412restraintdannyallison-320x198.jpg" />
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Staff at Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) must immediately stop using "force and restraint" to deal with "children's passive non-compliance", according to a joint report published this week by the Care...
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Published: 30 January 2019
<img alt="Reform child mental health care or face crisis, government warned" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/5aa8339d-75c5-409f-bf1d-8c20e0103818/2/mentalhealthpicturenewscastonline-320x198.png" />
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A report by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood claims that a reformed Mental Health Act will be little more than "sticking plaster'' unless the needs of children feature...
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Published: 30 January 2019
<img alt="Brexit and poverty major threats to child health, warn doctors" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/2270c619-1699-40b0-862d-d139d8a203ae/1/p2thumb9jpg5314-320x198.jpg" />
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In a report measuring improvements in child health, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) says that it is "disappointed and gravely concerned" by a lack of progress by the government...
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Published: 29 January 2019
<img alt="Half of boys in YOIs are from BME backgrounds" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/a70233ee-8d76-4580-abb8-19af838718dd/1/yoilockphiladams030512-320x198.jpg" />
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HM Inspectorate of Prisons' annual survey of children in custody, for 2017/18, found that 51 per cent of boys in YOIs identify themselves as being from a BME background, compared with 48 per cent when...
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Published: 29 January 2019
<img alt="The future of early intervention: roundtable debate" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/e8a554a3-dfc7-4eb4-8161-b30287d9868a/4/KathyMarriottPicturebyTomAskewMiller-320x198.jpg" />
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Click here to download the full debate as a PDF
The urgency to reduce pressures on children's services has never been greater. Research published by the Association of Directors of Children's Services...
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Published: 29 January 2019
<img alt="Charity receives £6.65m to boost disadvantaged children's access to sport" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/1676fd98-aef5-43f3-91a0-9b711bc26d41/3/StreetGamesimage-320x198.jpg" />
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The charity Street Games, which supports young people through sport, has received £6.65m in funding from Sport England to develop opportunities for physical activity in 50 of England's most deprived areas....
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Published: 28 January 2019