The Youth Justice Board (YJB) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published New Youth Justice Statistics for 2019/20 which covers data on both self-harm and restraint incidents and disproportionality in the youth justice system. Unfortunately, according to the data following issues are increased in both areas in five years:
The number of incidents of restrictive physical interventions (19 % in the last year/around 7,500 incidents) and more than 5,000 incidents included the use of pain-inflicting techniques.
The number of self-harm (35%) which some 627 self-harm injuries required medical treatment in 2019/20 with 69 children needing hospital treatment.
The number of children who received a caution or sentence (82 % over the last 10 years, with a 12 % drop in the last year).
The first-time entrants to the YJS (84% increased compared to 2009/12 % lower than 2018)
The number of children and young people with a previous conviction reoffended (0.2% lower than 2018/19, higher than a decade ago)
The proportion of black children cautioned or sentenced (last 10 years)
Asian children who received a caution or sentence compared with the previous year (10%)
Alex Mistlin reports for The Guardian that, according to the government’s annual youth justice statistics, self-harm and use of restraint are increasingly commonplace in the youth justice system and a record high of more than half of young people in…
The APPG (All-party Parliamentary Group in the UK) on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention, with the help of the Samaritans, has created a report on the support of young people with self-harm and suicide issues.
The main findings were:
Young people…
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The article reflects on the findings regarding the effects of new mobile- and internet-based psychological methods for self-harm in adolescents and adults. The topic covers a recent issue provided that the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the…
According to the report (Injustice or In Justice: Children in the Justice System) by Anne Longfield, in the last ten years the number of children receiving a caution, or a sentence has fallen by 83% and the number of children in custody has fallen…
This booklet aims to help you understand more about self-harm and what to do if you are worried about yourself for someone else. It explains what self-harm is, what to do if you or someone you know is self-harming, and how to get help.
All of the…
Self-injury awareness day happened on 1 March in the UK, and was an opportunity to deeply understand self-harm.
There are a number of reasons why people self-harm: certain triggers linked to a traumatic event or finding physical pain easier to cope…
This infograph is based on the booklet with the same name that aims to help children and teenagers understand more about self-harm and what to do if you are worried about yourself for someone else. It explains what self-harm is, what to do if you or…
According to the latest UK government data, compared to 2019 the death, serious harm, abuse or neglect of children under five 27% increased in 2020. Unfortunately, the same increase is observed for children under one.
Moreover, the Nuffield…
Research by the Education Policy Institute has found that 133,000 young people referred to specialist mental health services in England were rejected in 2018-19.
The study examines access to specialist services, waiting times for treatment, and…
A union of charities announced the case of closing England’s child prisons due to the ill-treatment of children meanwhile COVID 19 is intensifying that harm.
The announcement originally came out in 2016 but there was nothing done about it. Officials…
Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, has published a set of reports (The children who no-one knows what to do with / Private provision in children's social care) showing how the children’s residential social care system is broken and…
The latest report of Save the Children outlines - through interviews with children and case workers - how the implementation of the EU-Turkey Deal is adversely affecting child refugees and migrants.
One year since the start of the European Union (…
In England, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that painful restraint will be removed from the core syllabus for officers escorting children, but the technique will now appear in a new section on personal safety.
A number of organizations have…
A review was commissioned in the UK to investigate the use of pain-inducing restraint in the youth secure estate.
The report was made by Charlie Taylor who spent 12 months observing young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure…
