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Policy Briefing: Crises and crossroads for the children’s secure estate: Resisting child imprisonment and rethinking youth custody post-pandemic

This briefing presents the significant challenges for the children’s secure estate that lie ahead in the wake of the pandemic. It examines existing failures pre-pandemic, the significant risk of harm to children in custody as a result of experiences during the pandemic, failures in strategy for the children’s secure estate, and the government projection that the number of children in custody will steeply rise in coming years.

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A critical juncture for youth justice: Learning lessons and future directions for a post-pandemic youth justice system

Today, AYJ publishes the second of three policy briefings for our ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Justice’ research project, which considers key challenges for the youth justice system that have been brought about, aggravated or accentuated by the pandemic, and demonstrates how the youth justice system is at a critical juncture.

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Policy Briefing: A critical juncture for youth justice: Learning lessons and future directions for a post-pandemic youth justice system

This briefing considers key challenges for the youth justice system that have been brought about, aggravated or accentuated by the pandemic. It demonstrates how the youth justice system is at a critical juncture, considers future directions for justice for children, and calls for lessons to be learnt from experiences during the pandemic.

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Policy Briefing: A perfect storm for children at risk? Preventing a post-pandemic surge in the criminalisation of children

This briefing explores the significant risk of a surge in the number of children drawn into the justice system following the pandemic as a result of the exacerbation of children’s vulnerabilities, support services under severe strain, and the complex and challenging policy context.

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Offering hope and care in youth diversion - Juvenis/DIVERT Youth

Winston Goode, CEO and Founder of Juvenis, discusses their DIVERT Youth programme and the components which make up successful diversion including a multi-agency approach, mental health support, and long-term funding which prioritses relationship-building and family and community connections.

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The neglected realities of child stop and search - StopWatch

StopWatch, which works to ensure fair and accountable policing in the UK, discusses inappropriate and ineffective police stop and searches on children, highlighting the shameful racial inequalities which persist and calling for higher standards and more oversight on the practice.

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The Youth Justice System’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Literature Review

This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing policy, practice and research literature about the impacts of COVID-19 on the youth justice system. The review considers the impacts of the pandemic across each stage of the youth justice system, bringing together findings from community-based responses, the courts, and the secure estate.

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