In Secure Settings
The latest information about Secure Settings on the Youth Justice Resource Hub
Maintaining Children- family and community links whilst in custody (October 2023)
Published: 02/11/2023
Summary: To provide a clear framework for the process for checking family contacts for children whilst they are in a secure establishment. Description: The secure estate will ask the home Youth Justice Service to undertake checks on the child- visitor and contact list. The aim of these checks is to ensure that the child does…
Family Contact in Youth Custody: Annex to a Positive Approach to Parenting: Part II of the Independent Family Review – Children’s Commissioner (March 2023)
Published: 20/07/2023
Summary: The Children’s Commissioner has published their report on children’s access to family contact in custody and ways in which the service can strengthen and maintain healthy family ties for the children in its care.
Children in Custody 2021-22: An Analysis of 12-18-Year-Olds’ Perceptions of Their Experiences in Secure Training Centres and Young Offender Institutions – HM Inspectorate of Probation (January 2023)
Published: 24/02/2023
Summary: Access to the published report by HM Inspectorate of Probation concerned with children in custody 2021-2022.
Resettlement of Children After Custody Evidence Review – Clinks (August 2022)
Published: 01/11/2022
Clinks have published their evidence review; Resettlement of Children After Custody (August 2022). The evidence review looks at:
Evaluation: Framework for Integrated Care (SECURE STAIRS) – Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (May 2022)
Published: 27/06/2022
Summary:
Access to the evaluation of the Framework for Integrated Care, which is a framework implemented in the children and young people’s secure estate which aims to improve the quality of care and outcomes for children and young people.
Police Custody Comfort Boxes for Children – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 19/05/2022
Summary: Suffolk County Lines Pathfinder have shared the methodology and associated resources for their comfort boxes project for children in Police custody aimed at supporting children having a better experience and increased engagement while in Police custody.
Leaflet for Children: What Your Rights are as Young People in Secure Settings and Knowing What the Law is on ‘Off Rolling’ in Schools’ – South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortium (January 2022)
Published: 04/05/2022
Summary: Children in Adel Beck Secure Children Home, have created a leaflet highlighting the rights of all children in secure settings in regard to education placements and education, health and care plans.
Police Custody Animations for Children: Your Rights and Entitlements in Police Custody – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 03/05/2022
Summary: County Lines Pathfinder have shared and developed two videos to support children understand the process when entering Police custody as well as their rights.
Out of Sight: Girls in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate Report – Centre for Mental Health (October 2021)
Published: 10/03/2022
Summary: The Centre for Mental Health have published a report that looks at girls in the youth secure estate.
Surviving Incarceration – the pathways of looked after and non-looked after children into, through and out of custody – University of Bedfordshire (2019)
Published: 15/09/2021
Summary Links to Bedfordshire University’s literature review and full report concerning the journey of children looked after into, through and out of custody. Description The University of Bedfordshire, in partnership with the South and West Yorkshire Consortium, and utilising the data collected by the Consortium, considered areas for further research with regard to over-representation and…
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