Publication - Independent report

COVID-19 Children and Families Collective Leadership Group - short-life group on under-18s in custody: report

Published: 8 July 2022
From: Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
Directorate: Children and Families Directorate, +1 more … Justice Directorate
Topic: Children and families, Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland, Equality and rights, +2 more … Health and social care, Law and order
ISBN: 9781804357019

The Covid-19 Children and Families Collective Leadership Group (CLG) set up a short-life group to deliver improvements in the experience and reduce the number of under-18s in custody. This is the sub-group's report and recommendations.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. HMIPS - Year of Childhood Pre-inspection Survey 2021 | HMIPS (prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk)

2. Youth justice: Whole system approach to young offending - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. The Vision for Justice in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC): GIRFEC planning - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. HMIPS - Year of Childhood Pre-inspection Survey 2021 | HMIPS (prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk)

6. Rights-Respecting-Summary.pdf (cycj.org.uk)

7. Clan Childlaw calls for a child-friendly legal aid system | Clan Childlaw

8. Change Programme ONE - The Promise

9. A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Programme for Government 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10. ACEs encompass a wide-range of adverse experiences which can negatively impact on young personren's healthy development; including the experiences commonly included in ACE population surveys (physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, parental separation, household domestic violence, and growing-up in a household in which there are adults: experiencing alcohol and drug use problems; mental health difficulties; or imprisonment); as well as many other experiences (e.g. bullying, bereavement, coercive control, homelessness, and community violence).

11. Understanding the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a male offender population in Wales: the Prisoner ACE Survey - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre On Investment for Health and Well-being (phwwhocc.co.uk)

12. Plan 21-24 - The Promise

13. A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Programme for Government 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. Vision for Young People in Custody (sps.gov.uk)

15. SPS population figures

16. Provisional Scottish Government cellwise population figures

17. SPS data over a period of a year

18. Children and Young People in Custody in Scotland: Looking Behind the Data (Revised June 2018) - Children's and Young People's Centre for Justice (cycj.org.uk)

19. Analysis of data from SPS records

20. Case studies drawn from Polmont records

21. Polmont Barnardos team

22. SPS records