COVID-19 Children and Families Collective Leadership Group - short-life group on under-18s in custody: report

The Covid-19 Children and Families Collective Leadership Group (CLG) set up a short-life group to deliver improvements in the experience and reduce the number of under-18s in custody. This is the sub-group's report and recommendations.


Footnotes

1. HMIPS - Year of Childhood Pre-inspection Survey 2021 | HMIPS (prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk)

2. Youth justice: Whole system approach to young offending - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. The Vision for Justice in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC): GIRFEC planning - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. HMIPS - Year of Childhood Pre-inspection Survey 2021 | HMIPS (prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk)

6. Rights-Respecting-Summary.pdf (cycj.org.uk)

7. Clan Childlaw calls for a child-friendly legal aid system | Clan Childlaw

8. Change Programme ONE - The Promise

9. A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Programme for Government 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10. ACEs encompass a wide-range of adverse experiences which can negatively impact on young personren's healthy development; including the experiences commonly included in ACE population surveys (physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, parental separation, household domestic violence, and growing-up in a household in which there are adults: experiencing alcohol and drug use problems; mental health difficulties; or imprisonment); as well as many other experiences (e.g. bullying, bereavement, coercive control, homelessness, and community violence).

11. Understanding the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a male offender population in Wales: the Prisoner ACE Survey - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre On Investment for Health and Well-being (phwwhocc.co.uk)

12. Plan 21-24 - The Promise

13. A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Programme for Government 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. Vision for Young People in Custody (sps.gov.uk)

15. SPS population figures

16. Provisional Scottish Government cellwise population figures

17. SPS data over a period of a year

18. Children and Young People in Custody in Scotland: Looking Behind the Data (Revised June 2018) - Children's and Young People's Centre for Justice (cycj.org.uk)

19. Analysis of data from SPS records

20. Case studies drawn from Polmont records

21. Polmont Barnardos team

22. SPS records

23. Principles of Good Transitions 3 Children and Young People in Conflict With the Law Supplement(2021 CYCJ and ARC

Contact

Email: Covid19CandF@gov.scot

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