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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Evaluation Report on the Community Resolution and Prevention Service (CRPS) (October 2023)

Published: 02/11/2023

Summary: The aim of the CRPS is to offer a programme of support for children following their first community resolution, or they have been identified as being at risk of offending. This is an independent evaluation of the service completed by Rocket Science.
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Responding to Drug Possession: A New Framework – The Centre for Justice Innovation (August 2022)

Published: 17/01/2023

Summary: The Centre for Justice Innovation have published a new framework to support Police forces to respond to drug possessions.
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Children and Young People- Voices on Youth Diversion and Disparity – Centre for Justice Innovation (December 2022)

Published: 17/01/2023

Summary: The Centre for Justice Innovation have published two relevant reports in March 2021 and December 2022 that look at diversion and disparity based on ethnicity.
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‘Punishing Abuse’ Report – West Midlands Combined Authority (March 2021)

Published: 29/09/2021

Summary: Access to the ‘Punishing Abuse’ report which looks at the lives of 80 children that are involved in the criminal justice system. 
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Serious Youth Violence Interim Evaluation Report – West Midlands Pathfinder (April 2021)

Published: 13/09/2021

Summary: An interim evaluation summary and report of the West Midlands Pathfinder work in relation to working effectively with parents and carers.
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Child arrests in England and Wales 2019, Research briefing – Howard League for Penal Reform (January 2021)

Published: 25/01/2021

Summary: A link to Howard League for Penal Reform research briefing concerned with child arrests in England and Wales in 2019.
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Children’s Rights, Policing and the Increasing use of spit hoods and tasers – Children’s Rights Alliance For England (April 2020)

Published: 14/08/2020

Summary: The Children’s Rights Alliance for England have published two briefings which provide an overview of children’s rights and the use of taser and spit hoods by police.
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