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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.
Crises and crossroads for the children’s secure estate: Resisting child imprisonment and rethinking youth custody post-pandemic
Today, AYJ publishes the third of three policy briefings for our ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Justice’ research project, examining the significant challenges for the children’s secure estate that lie ahead in the wake of the pandemic.
Mapping out solutions for children in secure children’s homes for welfare - NYAS
Jennifer Downie and Ben Twomey of NYAS discuss the impact of COVID-19 on children in secure children’s homes, increased strains on welfare placements, and the future of secure care post-pandemic.
“If this were my child, what level of care would I expect and hope for?” - Dr Anne-Marie Day
Dr Anne-Marie Day, Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University, discusses the right for children to be treated as children in custody and calls for a higher standard of care for these children, most of whom go into the harmful and abusive custody environment when they are at crisis point.
The “double hardship” faced by children in the secure estate during COVID-19 - Dr Laura Janes
Dr Laura Janes, Youth Justice lawyer and campaigner, discusses the isolation, mental health challenges and loss of essential life experiences and education endured by children in the secure estate during COVID-19.
Parliamentary event overview: A perfect storm for children at risk?
In continuation with our research project, conducted collaboratively with the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at MMU and funded by UK Research and Innovation, we hosted a parliamentary event exploring how to ensure that the criminalisation of children is a last resort post-pandemic.
Event Overview: Exploring the Impact and Implications of COVID-19 on the Youth Justice System
On Wednesday 27th April 2022, the AYJ with the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies hosted a hybrid event at Manchester Metropolitan University, to examine the findings of our joint research project exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the youth justice system.
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.
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.
A perfect storm for children at risk?: Preventing a post-pandemic surge in the criminalisation of children
Today, AYJ publishes the first of three policy briefings for our ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Justice’ research project. The briefing presents the significant risk of a surge in the number of children drawn into the youth justice system following the pandemic.
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.
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.
Breaking down barriers to diversion after COVID-19 - Centre for Justice Innovation
Bami Jolaoso, Innovative Practice Officer at the Centre for Justice Innovation, calls for greater awareness of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded children's engagement with and access to effective diversion, placing a particular focus on vulnerability, partnership working, and racial disproportionality.
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.
Prioritising vulnerable children and families for action and support - Anne Longfield
Anne Longfield, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, highlights the reality of the exacerbated issues faced by vulnerable children and families following the COVID-19 pandemic, and calls for deep-rooted reform of the services that should be supporting them, as well as the way in which they are viewed by Government and society.
COVID-19 has devastatingly exacerbated issues faced by children in a youth justice system under severe strain
The exceptional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the youth justice system are documented in a new report published today. The comprehensive report finds that COVID-19 has devastatingly exacerbated the issues faced by children affected by the youth justice system.
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.
COVID-19 Blog Series: How did the youth justice sector adapt?
AYJ members share their reflections in a series of blogs, as part of The Youth Justice System’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic research project. We invited our members and the wider youth justice sector to share their experiences of the pandemic and how this impacted their work.
The Impact of COVID-19: AYJ in conversation with Michael O’Connor
AYJ speaks to Youth Justice Consultant, Michael O’Connor, on how Covid-19 has impacted his work in youth justice and how he has adapted to this unprecedented year.
The Impact of COVID-19: AYJ in conversation with Khulisa
AYJ member Khulisa, a national charity that provides wellbeing support to vulnerable young people in schools and prisons, talks us through how Covid-19 has impacted their work in youth justice and how they have adapted to this unprecedented year.