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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
July 2026 E-Bulletin
Welcome to the July 2026 edition of CYCJ’s E-Bulletin! This month, we bring you the latest updates on Scotland’s youth justice policy and practice, as
Info Sheet 122 – New Pathways through Diversion from Prosecution
In the context of increasing numbers of children, young people and adults being offered – and taking up the option of participating in – Diversion
Response to the European Commission Call for Evidence: Action Plan on the Protection of Children Against Crime
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) welcomes the development of an EU Action Plan on the protection of children against crime. The
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,
Info Sheet 121 – Transition Guidance – Secure Care to Young Offender Institutions
Where it has been decided that a child under the age of 18 requires to be deprived of their liberty and has been remanded or
June 2026 E-Bulletin
Welcome to the June 2026 edition of CYCJ’s E-Bulletin! This month, we bring you the latest updates on Scotland’s youth justice policy and practice, as
CYCJ Webinar: Shifts in Secure: results from the 2025 secure care census
Summary: This webinar focused on the findings from the 2025 secure care census, and examined what changes have occurred within the secure estate since the
