Category - Criminal Justice

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a review of guidelines for agencies to help tackle the criminalisation of children in care. The National Protocol, which asks professionals to consider whether a child’s...

Two-thirds of children in custody have been in local authority care, a new report finds, prompting calls for an improvement in relationships between children and staff to create a “stable environment” for young people...

Researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, Lancaster University, Liverpool John Moore University and University of Bristol have written a report analysing 36 local authority protocols on reducing unnecessary...

The Department for Education (DfE) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have published the first in a programme of work to establish which evidence-based actions the government and partners could take to reduce the number...