Underfunding, Not Demand, Is Breaking SEND
Jack Lowman, Sense, says properly funding the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is vital for disabled children to get the best start.
Directors of children’s services criticise pepper spray policy
24/04/2025 Council directors working in children’s services have criticized the Government’s decision to allow the use of pepper spray in young offender institutions. |
Labour announces programme to tackle youth crime
10/10/2023 Labour would set up a ‘young futures’ programme to help tackle crises in youth crime and mental health, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced. |
Campaigners call for ‘community-led approach’ to youth violence
25/04/2023 Police powers should be reduced and a ‘community-led approach’ to violence among young people adopted instead, according to campaigners. |
Former children’s commissioner calls for ‘Sure Start Plus’
04/11/2022 The Government should establish a Sure Start Plus programme that could be targeted at teenagers who are at risk of exploitation, former commissioner says. |
Work begins on UK’s first ‘secure school’
01/08/2022 Construction has started on the UK’s first ‘secure school’, a custodial facility aimed at providing young offenders with an education. |
Government announces £300m fund to tackle youth crime
20/05/2022 Councils across England and Wales will be able to draw on a £300m fund aimed at cutting youth crime. |
London boroughs consider cannabis decriminalisation
05/01/2022 Three London boroughs could be part of a pilot scheme aimed at diverting young people caught with a small amount of cannabis away from the justice system. |
Young offenders ‘set up to fail’, report warns
08/10/2019 Children and young people released from young offender institutions are getting too little support in the community and are being ‘set up to fail’, a new report shows. |
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Khan announces £1.1m sports funding to tackle crime
01/08/2019 London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced £1.1m funding for sports groups as part of a drive to stop young people getting involved in crime and violence. |
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Councils ‘in the dark’ over youth service funding
15/05/2019 Local authority leaders have warned that councils ‘remain in the dark’ over youth service funding that helps tackle knife crime and county lines drug dealing. |
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Neuroscience and knife crime
24/04/2019 Gifford Sutherland, knife crime expert at The Training Hub, provides some insight into neuroscience, young people and knife crime. |
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Pilot project helps a third of youths quit ‘county lines’
14/02/2019 Specialist support helped nearly a third of young people in a pilot project to quit 'county lines' involvement with drugs, according to a review. |
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Javid announces £200m to tackle youth violence
03/10/2018 Local government leaders have welcomed the announcement of a new fund to tackle violent crime — but renewed calls to reverse cuts in public health budgets. |
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Home secretary ‘doubles’ early intervention youth fund
31/07/2018 Funding to tackle violence among young people is to be doubled as part of the Government's 'public health' approach to combatting crime. |
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Councils urge Whitehall to avert ‘tragedy’ in youth offending facilities
22/09/2017 Councils have called on the Government to protect young offenders as inspectors say conditions in youth offending facilities make future tragedy ‘inevitable’. |
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Report warns homeless young offenders being placed in unsafe housing
07/09/2016 A third of homeless 16 and 17-year-olds working with youth offending teams are being placed in unsafe or unsuitable accommodation by local authorities, inspectors have warned. |
