Supporting Care Leavers to Prevent Custody

Published: 18/12/2024

The YJB has produced an evidence summary which highlights what we know about care experienced children in custody in England and Wales, and how we can best support these children to prevent them entering custody. The summary draws on national data from the YJB, Department for Education and Ministry of Justice, as well as the latest youth justice evidence on best practice.
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Child First? Examining children’s perspectives of their ‘effective’ collaboration in youth justice decision-making

Published: 12/12/2024

This report, published in December 2024, provides details of a Child First research project undertaken to gain a greater understanding of what children supervised by youth justice services and held in custody think about their collaboration in youth justice decision-making processes.
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Enhanced Case Management Evaluation (Phase one) (April 2023)

Published: 05/04/2024

Summary: This research was commissioned by the YJB and carried out by Opinion Research Services. The Enhanced Case Management (ECM) approach is a trauma-informed, psychology-led approach to working with children in youth justice services.
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Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline Report – Traveller Movement (July 2022)

Published: 24/02/2023

Summary: Access to the report published by the Traveller Movement to disrupt the school to prison pipeline. 
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Relationship Between Care Status and Child Incarceration: A Literature Review – University of Bedfordshire (2018)

Published: 04/10/2021

Summary: The University of Bedfordshire have published a literature review concerned with the relationship between care status and children going into custody. 
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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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