Support offered to staff in youth offending teams could be used as a model of effective practice for adult probation services, according to the criminal justice inspectorate.
Stripping local authorities of funding designed to incentivise alternatives to remand for children known to youth offending teams (YOTs) is among proposals put forward in a government consultation on reforming remand funding arrangements.
Children services leaders have called for major youth justice reforms, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and creating a more “responsive and child centred system”.
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