Secure Care in Scotland: Comparative Analysis of Trends Across 2023/24 and 2024/25
National statistics provide important information about children entering and leaving secure care, however there is limited analysis that brings together the different routes into secure
Changing faces and heightened ACEs: results from the 2025 secure care census
This report presents provides a contemporary profile of every child accommodated within Scotland’s secure care estate on the day of the 2025 census. Building on
CYCJ Annual Report 2025-2026
This report sets out the significant achievements from this period, including highlights such as: Launching of the CYCJ eLearning platform, offering practitioners of all disciplines
Towards Child Centred Justice as a System Level Paradigm Shift: Conceptualising a New Framework Through the Scottish Whole System Approach
Child-centred justice represents a paradigm shift: moving beyond systems that merely adapt procedures for children, towards systems fundamentally designed around children’s rights, developmental needs and lived experiences. This
Care and control: a gendered analysis of tensions in secure care for girls
This report looks into secure care through a gender lens in order to understand and unpack some tensions related to the interventions planned for girls,
2025 Stakeholder Survey Report
The CYCJ Stakeholder Survey is a biennial exercise designed to gather the views of key stakeholder groups: practitioners; children and young people; parents and carers;
School Exclusion, Inequality and Belonging: Participation evidence from children
School exclusion is widely recognised as a key site where educational practice, inequality, wellbeing, and safeguarding intersect. A substantial body of research across the UK
Antisocial Behaviour and School Exclusion
School exclusion and anti-social behaviour sit at the intersection of children’s rights, educational policy and wider social justice concerns in Scotland. For the Children and
Children, Capacity and Justice, Reflections from a Comparative Placement – Summary Report
Between 8 September 2025 and 31 January 2026, Dr Kemal Saruhan undertook a comparative placement at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), at the
Restorative Justice Test Case Project summary report
The Children & Young People’s Centre for Justice, Community Justice Scotland and the Scottish Government are pleased to launch this report presenting summary findings from
