Pigeonholing
Article 12 of the UNCRC states that nation states have a duty to listen to the views of young people, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or any other characteristic. In this blog, Lizzie Coutts of Positive Prison? Positive Futures talks about her involvement in a project which aims to support young people with experience of […]
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Reflections on Addictions and Criminal Justice
This May (2018), I attended the ‘Addictions and Criminal Justice’ conference hosted by SASO (Scottish Association for the Study of Offending). The event was Chaired by Sheriff Iain Fleming, who began by discussing Glasgow Drug Courts, and split into four sessions with nine speakers including the Sheriff’s responsible for overseeing the drug court, practitioners in […]
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Which one am I?
This month’s Year of Young People blog is written by Rosie Moore, a social work student at the University of Strathclyde. This is the first of three blogs that Rosie will publish via CYCJ, on this occasion sharing her experiences of her past. Rosie’s next two blogs will look at her life in the present, […]
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Still Between a Rock and a Hard Place
On April 26, CYCJ hosted a roundtable discussion on looked after children and offending. The event brought together representatives from Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (Staf), Social Work Scotland, Community Justice Scotland, COSLA, Police Scotland, the Care Inspectorate, University of Strathclyde, CELCIS, SCRA and Who Cares? Scotland, to explore three key questions: What is working […]
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The ACE’s Framework
The findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research are now well known. Dan Johnson explores what we can do about it. The ACE’s framework I’m guessing you know about the ACE’s research by now (if not please read the blog or paper by CYCJ’s Nina Vaswani!). The ACE’s framework has become a popular and […]
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Family contact and the cost of phone calls from prison
Jas, who’s on placement with CYCJ, looks at family contact and the real cost of making phone calls from prison in his first blog. When a person breaks the law, they can be sentenced to a period of time in prison as a method of punishment. Once in prison, it is widely accepted that maintaining […]
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Lessons from Beyond Youth Custody – it’s your turn, Scotland
Guest blogger Ian MacNeill reports back to CYCJ from the Beyond Youth Custody conference. On March 22, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in London hosted by Beyond Youth Custody (BYC) on Improving Policy and Practice in the Effective Resettlement of Young People. BYC was established using funding from The Big Lottery to challenge, […]
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The Forgotten Children
Would it surprise you to learn that there are more children with parents in prison than there are children in care? It is estimated that 30,000 children face parental imprisonment within Scotland each year. However, there is almost no data available on this subject due to statutory bodies not asking and no specific policy being […]
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Year of Young People – A time for change?
In this month’s Year of Young People blog Claire McDonald reflects on her experiences of growing up. She is now studying towards an MSc in Psychology with her ongoing dissertation examining perceptions of risk, drawn on data from the IVY project. Lessons for change When I was thinking about Year of Young People 2018 my […]
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