We spoke with Colin Paine, Thames Valley Police Detective Chief Superintendent, about the new CSE framework developed with Dr Hannah Maslen, deputy director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. The framework is a new and innovative guide with which the police can decide whether it is ethically appropriate to investigate cases of non-recent child sexual abuse.

Fiona Dyer tells us about the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice’s IVY Project, which is designed to address the gap in mental health assessment and management for high risk youths with complex needs.

*As of November 2019, Kibble, a specialist child and youth care charity and social enterprise, took over the hosting of the IVY Project. Dan Johnson, Clinical Director at Kibble, gave us an update.  

Nicola Lloyd, Neighbourhood Justice Manager at West Midlands Police, talks to us about the Force’s innovative Alcohol Related Violence Course (ARVC) which is targeted at alcohol-related offences including assaults, public order and criminal damage.

Stephanie Kilili – Policy Officer, Office of the Durham Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner –  shared with us their adult diversion scheme aimed at helping offenders get on track with their lives and taking them out of the criminal justice system.

Here are our 7 priorities for community justice for the new Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland

The purpose of this briefing is to summarise the evidence to date on the impact of pre-court diversion for adults and to draw out some promising practice principles for those working in pre-court diversion schemes.  

We spoke to Durham's Checkpoint diversion project about the successes of their scheme, their advice for others setting up a similar scheme, and their ambitions for the future.

Judith Harwin, the Professor in Socio-legal studies at Lancaster University writes about recent meta-analysis of FDACs, reported by the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.

Victoria Warden, Deputy Manager of London Family Drug and Alcohol Court writes about the expansion of the court to serve nine London boroughs.

Jane Dunne,  the Service Manager at Coventry Family Drug and Alcohol Court writes about winning the Public Sector Children’s Team Award at the 2018 Children & Young People Now Awards.