by Jonny Matthew | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog, Youth Justice
It struck me today – not for the first time – that trauma has a nasty habit of reproducing itself. Or rather the behaviour that springs from trauma and the systems that respond to it often seem to compound the problem. An example… Trauma 1 HISTORY:...
by Jonny Matthew | Jun 26, 2018 | Policy, Youth Justice
Dr Robert Jones of the Welsh Governance Centre has produced an excellent document which pulls together all the available data on imprisonment in Wales. Get tons more content, including video and audio posts, for a small monthly subscription on Jonny 24/7 –...
by diviadmin | Oct 15, 2016 | Reports, Youth Justice
The HM Inspectorate of Prisons has published it’s report into the impact on children in custody who are imprisoned away from their home area. Click here to download the full report… What are the findings and recommendations?… The thematic inspection...
by diviadmin | Aug 3, 2014 | Policy, Reports, Uncategorized
A parent going to prison isn’t the fault of the child. Obviously. Yet thousands of children suffer as a result… Imagine coming home from school to find that Dad or Mum have gone to jail. This is the reality for around 230,000 children in the UK. So what...
by diviadmin | Jul 6, 2014 | Practice, Youth Justice
Many young people in the youth justice system have speech, language and communication problems. To help them, we need to discover which ones have and which ones haven’t. That’s where “The Box” comes in… This is a guest post by Dr....