We co-hosted a session on #WeCops to get a better understandings of how front line officers feel about out of court disposals.
This report documents the findings of the process and outcomes evaluation of CASS+, a charity which provides advice and support from magistrates' court settings in Devon & Cornwall.
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.
This briefing reflects on positive steps the youth justice system has taken since we published our briefing ‘Strengthening youth diversion’ in 2020.
We have produced a review and synthesis of the available research on the use of the conditional caution, in order to inform the implementation of the new diversionary caution by all police forces.
This guidance aims to support probation practitioners to improve their practice in working with individuals who speak English as a second or additional language.
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 to Cathy Ashley, Chief Executive of Family Rights Group, about the Lifelong Links approach to building positive and lasting connections for young people in care.
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This study explores the feasibility of developing problem-solving courts in the West Midlands, especially problem-solving courts for both court-involved children and young people and for young adults.