Labour plan to toughen up on offenders

Labour plan to toughen up on offenders
Sweeping reforms designed to restore trust in the criminal justice system will be proposed in a government report this week, including tougher community punishments and better protection for the victims of crime.
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More smuggled children arrive in UK as Afghan violence escalates
The number of Afghan children discovered being smuggled through Dover has risen dramatically in the last 12 months after a surge in violence between Taliban and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
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Alcohol fuels Scotland’s high homicide rate
Scots are almost twice as likely to commit homicide or kill themselves as people anywhere else in Britain, a study has found.
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Family courts out of touch says judge
A senior family judge has attacked the present system of family courts run by a “self-selecting great and good and a professional judiciary” as out of tune with society.
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The ASBO queen who wants her public to feel protected
She is known as the ASBO Queen. Loud, brash and forceful, Louise Casey has a deserved reputation for saying what she thinks.
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Call for fostering up to age of 21
In an open letter to Ed Balls, the Children’s Minister, 12 children’s charities, including Barnardo’s, have urged that children be allowed to remain in foster care until the age of 21 rather than being forced to fend for themselves at 18.
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Young pledges to ‘build on what we have’ for Care Quality Commission
The incoming head of the new combined inspectorate for health, social care and detained mental patients will seek to minimise disruption but will press ahead with dismantling boundaries between the three sectors.
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