We spoke with Dr Anne-Marie Day, Criminology lecturer at Keele University about insights from her report ‘It’s a Hard Balance to Find’: The Perspectives of Youth Justice Practitioners in England on the Place of ‘Risk’ in an Emerging ‘Child-First’ World.
The most recent Youth Justice Statistics (2020/21) highlight the continued ethnic inequalities in the youth justice system which negatively impact children and young people’s lives. In this blog we dig deeper behind these new statistics; considering some of the challenges of working with ethnicity data and how data can inform approaches to managing disparities.
We spoke with Isobel Johnson, the Occupational Therapist at the Gloucestershire FDAC, about her role and the promise of occupational therapy within the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC).
We explain the difference between drug diversion and decriminalisation, in response to media reports that the Mayor of London is planning to ‘decriminalise’ cannabis in the capital.
We spoke with Sarah Limb, Criminal Justice Policy and Campaigns Officer at the Traveller Movement, a charity which works with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) people, about how the youth justice system can improve outcomes for GRT children.
The Centre responds to the Government’s new ten year drug strategy, which set out plans to build a ‘world-class drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system’.
