Claire Ely, Head of Criminal Justice Practice, explores how Outcome 22 and 23 could become a central pillar of a fairer youth justice system, widening access to diversion and helping to ensure that no child reaches a courtroom unnecessarily.

This briefing explores how youth justice in England and Wales can go beyond recent progress in reducing children entering court, drawing on lessons from New Zealand to show how removing the requirement to admit guilt could widen access to diversion.

This briefing offers strategies to enable better collaboration between police forces and women’s centres, and improve outcomes for women in contact with the justice system. 

This report presents compiled data shared by the 14 FDACs in England for the period 1 October to 31 December 2025, to offer a live picture of the circumstances facing families in FDAC, the work that is done to support them and the outcomes that have been achieved.

We spoke to Diana Skelton, Head of Giving Poverty a Voice Programme at ATD Fourth World, on her work supporting people experiencing poverty and the intersection between experiencing poverty and contact with the family justice system.

For this Expert Voices blog, Natalie Queiroz MBE, Victims Advocate for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, shares her reflections on Coventry and Warwickshire FDAC.