Blogs

We spoke with Mica Aspinwall, project manager within Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service about their Child-First Diversion Pathfinder, its evaluation and how they used the Centre's cost avoidance tool to demonstrate the benefits of diversion.

We spoke with Alex Stevens on his view on current drug policy and moving away from over intensive and stigmatising interventions.

Jason Kew reflects on The National Drugs Summit.

­The Centre calls for expansion of evidence-based practices and commission into alternative drug policies.

We co-hosted a session on #WeCops to get a better understandings of how front line officers feel about out of court disposals.

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 Liam Cooper, Community Advice Manager and Jenny Da Silva, Community Advice Coordinator at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court.

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.