Staying Connected: Care-experienced children and young people with a sibling in custody
When you’re in care, being separated from a sibling can have a detrimental impact. The SCRA and Families Outside Staying Connected project has been set up to find out what it feels like when brothers and sisters are separated where one is care-experienced and one is in prison. In this blog for CYCJ, Kirsty Deacon […]
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Child Criminal Exploitation – the time to act is now
With the publication of the first ever report to address Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Scotland, child criminal exploitation is on the agenda right now – but is enough being done? Fiona Dyer doesn’t think so, and is calling for Scotland to take action now to prevent further exploitation from happening. The Home Office defines […]
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Our wakeup call: A disappointing increase in offence referrals
We felt the need to write this blog following the publication of the Scottish Children’s Reporters Administration (SCRA) Annual Statistics, which show an increase in the number of offence referrals made for young people. Rather than use the old clichéd disclaimer about statistics, let’s say that statistics paint a picture, and it is for us […]
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Understanding the costs of youth justice
Even if you’re neither victim nor perpetrator, the costs of youth justice affect us all. Debbie Nolan and Charlotte Morris report back from CYCJ’s recent event on why children who offend are often those most offended against, and the importance of never giving up. CYCJ is now in its fourth year of participating in Engage […]
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