Rage, grief, disgust followed news of Detainment’s Oscar nomination. UK government adviser Malcolm Stevens knew the boys who killed 2 year-old James Bulger. What does he make of the film?
BBC Panorama exposed abuse at Medway Secure Training Centre — and a government policy that has gone off the rails.
A report by Prof Alexis Jay has exposed shocking abuse and exploitation of 1,400 children as young as 11, over 16 years, in Rotherham, describing 'blatant' collective failures of the care system, police and local politicians. A leading social worker holds the government to account.
A former British Government senior adviser reflects on the treatment meted out to the boys who killed James Bulger.
Will this government help young people stay out of trouble and out of prison?: A response to the Committee of Public Accounts Report ‘The youth justice system in England and Wales; Reducing offending by young people’.
