by Jonny Matthew | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, Practice, Safeguarding, Uncategorised, Youth Justice
We’ve all been in practice situations where we’ve felt exposed, at risk. Dealing with very troubled children and families means this is going to happen. It’s inevitable, sooner or later. Risky Practice… It’s not that we set out to take...
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 diviadmin | Nov 13, 2018 | Policy, Reports, Youth Justice
After delaying the publication of this post for nearly a year, the death of another young person in custody has spurred me to go ahead… In December 2016 the government finally published the long-awaited and much-leaked Taylor Review of youth justice. Time for...
by Jonny Matthew | Sep 16, 2018 | Youth Justice
This month saw the publication of our article in the magazine, ‘Magistrate.’ Having met with representatives of the youth bench in Cardiff, we were approached to write about our work applying the Trauma Recovery Model in youth offending teams. – this...
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 | Mar 18, 2018 | Practice, Youth Justice
A young person isn’t doing what their court order requires. So do we breach them or not? Get the audio versions of my newer posts on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here… This is a question I get asked quite a lot. It’s a really good one, because it...
