This bulletin brings together statistics from the British Crime Survey and the numbers of crimes recorded by the police to provide a comprehensive account of the latest patterns and trends in the main

...year ending 31 March 2004: England and Wales.

This annual publication provides summary information on the children accommodated in the 30 secure units in England and Wales. It shows the number of children in the secure units by gender, age, length of stay and legal status.

This bulletin presents the latest figures on the average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders.

These figures are used to monitor the pledge to halve the average

"Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention Methodologies for Children with Developmental Social Communication Disorders"

This research aimed to identify and develop an efficient clinical/classroom assessment of language pragmatics for children with pragmatic language impairment.

This report describes the findings of the Young People's Social Attitudes 2003 survey.

It examines the extent to which particular sub-groups of young people differ in their views and ex

The National Healthy School Standard is based on the proposition that education and health have a direct impact on each other.

Across the West Midlands region 12 local healthy schools programmes have been putting that theory into practice.

A number of YOT inspection reports have been published over the summer.

Recently added have been:

Information sharing and assessment aims to ensure that children at risk of social exclusion are identified early, referred to appropriate services and monitored through improved information sharing be

The overall performance of the Havering YOT was assessed as satisfactory with good basis for development.

The inspection found a lively, supportive and committed team of staff, many of whom had been in post for three years. Good practice was evident in the overall approach by the managers and the team worked hard on core assessments and interventions with children and young people who had offended.

A key issue of concern was that of resources.

Offenders of the Future? Assessing the risk of children and young people becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour.

The aim of the manual is to assist in the identification of families w