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What do we know about children deprived of their liberty? An evidence review
- Author:
- ROE Alice
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 74
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises what we know about children and young people deprived of their liberty across welfare, youth justice and mental health settings in England and Wales from national administrative data and recent research studies. Drawing on national administrative data and research from the past ten years, it summarises what we know about the number of children held in different settings, who the children are, where they are placed, their experiences of secure care, and what happens to them afterwards. The report finds that the secure estate in England and Wales is struggling to adequately meet children’s needs. There is a lack of early intervention to support children and their families before risk escalates, and once this occurs, a lack of suitable placements and support in the community that might prevent children needing to enter secure settings. Demand for welfare placements in secure children’s homes, and the increasingly complex needs of children who are referred, exceeds capacity and capability within the system. There is a group of children with very severe mental health needs that do not meet criteria for in-patient mental health treatment. These children are often passed around different agencies with a lack of coordinated care planning between children’s services and mental health services. Although there is a lack of evidence about children’s outcomes, research to date suggests that while some children may benefit in the short term, in the long term a placement in secure care is unable to fundamentally improve children’s outcomes. There is a therefore a need to rethink how we meet the needs of this group of children, based on a better understanding of their journeys, strengths and needs, what a ‘positive outcome’ would look like, and the type of trauma-informed, therapeutic and integrated care that would support children’s resilience and recovery both in secure settings and in the community before, after or instead of a placement in secure care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2021
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This statistical release gives statistics on children accommodated in secure children’s homes at 31 March 2021 and includes data from England and Wales. This release includes information on the number of approved places and children accommodated by: gender; age; length of stay; type of placement; ethnicity. Headline facts and figures include: children accommodated in secure children's homes decreased by 23% (42 fewer children) to 142; approved places that were occupied – 56% – down from 72%; places contracted to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) were the same as last year at 107 places – 55 children were placed by the Youth Custody Service (YCS), down from 80. (Edited publisher abstract)
Youth and criminal justice in Scotland: the young person's journey
- Authors:
- CENTRE FOR YOUTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
An interactive online resource exploring how the youth and criminal justice system works for under 18s in Scotland. Developed by CYCJ in partnership with Iriss and in consultation with a multi-disciplinary working group, the Young Person’s Journey takes the form of a clickable ‘map’ that details and explains the entirety of the journey a young person can make from an offence allegedly being committed: routes to court, court processes and sentencing; stages in the journey should a young person be remanded or sentenced to secure care or custody or sentenced to a community disposal; and post-sentence support. (Edited publisher abstract)