It probably didn't feel like the best of starts for the new children's commissioner for England, Maggie Atkinson.
Continue reading Why should Maggie Atkinson be sacked?.
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Dammit. We mention the words Tory and epiphany in the same sentence and up pop former leader Iain Duncan Smith and shadow home secretary Chris Grayling to discredit the mega-brainpower of the Outside Left policy unit.
Continue reading Marriage: It's that £20 question.
As a bad amateur naturalist I was interested to read about a novel piece of restorative justice involving a pair of swans.
Continue reading Restorative justice: Doing bird at the swan sanctuary.
The Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday confirmed what many have suspected for some time: that punishment alone is ineffective in the fight against knife crime among young people.
Continue reading Howard League offers knife crime answers.
Tony Blair started it. We thought he was only half-joking when in 2001 he proposed that drunken young men who engaged in antisocial behaviour should be frogmarched to the nearest cash machine to atone for their misdemeanours by way of an on-the-spot fine.
Continue reading Rod Morgan is right to be worried.
By Mike McNabb
Has anyone outside the Metropolitan Police kept a tally of the number of stabbings in London in the past week or so? Sorry to sound glib, only I started to but I lost count.
Continue reading More wounds in Britain's 'broken society'.
By Mike McNabb
With the Youth Justice Board's less-than-sparkling performance on reducing child custody numbers by 10% in recent years (they increased by 10%), it is justifiable to grumble that "something must be done".
Continue reading Can councils cut child custody numbers?.
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