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Work experience 2025
28/05/2025: YJLC Director, Aika Stephenson on the Netflix show adolescence
Aika Stephenson has spent her career seeking to raise awareness of how easily children can end up in the criminal justice system.
(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)
28/05/2025: Reducing Criminal Justice Involvement for Care-Experienced Children: New Report
A new report from the Centre for Justice Innovation and the Centre for Care explores the heightened risk of criminal justice involvement for children who have had contact with the social care system.
(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)
28/05/2025: New YJB Knife Crime Evidence and Insights Pack 2025
The Youth Justice Board (the “YJB”) has updated its Knife Crime Evidence and Insights Pack for 2025 (the “Pack”), using data provided by the Ministry of Justice. The Pack provides useful insights and recommendations that practitioners will find helpful to use as part of their work.
(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)
27/05/2025: What is an apprenticeship and how much are apprentices paid?
The government is scrapping funding for postgraduate apprenticeships for people aged 22 or over in England from next year.
27/05/2025: Higher-level apprenticeship funding to be scrapped as focus shifts to under-22s
The government is promising more training for people aged 21 and under in England, as it presses ahead with controversial plans to scrap funding for postgraduate apprenticeships.
23/05/2025: ‘I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs’: One in eight youths not in work or education
“I’ve applied for factories, care work, hospital work – anything to just get a job to support me and my son,” says 20-year-old mum Libby.
23/05/2025: Calls to strengthen family justice system after damning report
Campaigners have backed calls for government to strengthen the family justice system, after a damning National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed a backlog of nearly 50,000 cases.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
22/05/2025: Research finds ‘long-lasting financial benefits’ of Sure Start
Sure Start children’s centres generated “widespread and long-lasting benefits” for children that have created financial savings to the UK economy that “could be twice as high as its costs”, a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
22/05/2025: Slight improvements in racial diversity and more consistent retention in DCS role, ADCS reports
Fewer local authorities experienced a change in director of children’s services last year, according to The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), 2025 DCS update.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
21/05/2025: Phone and shouting ban ‘transforms’ school plagued by fights
Fights arranged in school via social media, then filmed and shared online.
21/05/2025: Universities must do more to prevent suicides, ministers say
Universities in England have been told to step up efforts to prevent student suicides, in a review commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE).
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21/05/2025: Health providers call on government to prioritise young people
Health providers are urging ministers to ensure children’s health is a priority in its forthcoming NHS Plan and Comprehensive Spending Review and to build on good practice already taking place to support young people.