Blogs

We spoke with John Buskell, the Parent Mentor Coordinator at Pan-London FDAC, about the role of the Parent Mentor within the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC).

We spoke with Professor Stephen Case, academic, researcher and writer in youth offending and youth justice about his research into the 'Child First' principle and implementing this principle in practice.

We spoke with Peter Neyroud, former police officer for 30 years and lecturer in evidenced based policing about lessons from pre-arrest diversion and what he sees in the future for improving the evidence base.

 

This guest blog asks what can be done to re-establish trust between communities and police service areas in London, and stop the increasing incidents of serious youth violence.

We spoke with Caroline Chapman, a police sergeant at Project Gateway about her experience a police out of court disposal scheme for young adults.

We spoke with Mark McPaul, Senior Probation Officer in Sefton, about the innovative approach taken in Sefton Magistrates Court and their involvement in the Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) pilot programme

In March, the Centre convened a panel to discuss the themes raised in its new research report into racial disparity in youth diversion schemes. 

The Centre's Director, Phil Bowen, responds to the 2021 report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.

We spoke with Eva Thompson, a Speech and Language Therapist working for Suffolk County Council.

This article explains how the Ministry of Justice’s new bill will affect diversion and out of court disposals, and the Centre's hopes and concerns for this planned reform.