This report analyses a sample of adult and youth cases (184) in three criminal justice areas and tracks them from start to finish through the enforcement process.

It identifies why and where delays occur in the enforcement of community penalties.

This report examines evidence from 37 joint area reviews of local authority children’s services that took place in 2005-06 and the annual performance assessments of 102 councils that took place

Building cohesion is not an approach that government - central or local - can impose.

Like most aspects of community life, cohesion is something that people themselves generate, but which government and its partners can facilitate.

This report on the second phase of the evaluation of three restorative justice schemes (CONNECT, Justice Research Consortium and REMEDI) focuses on the extent of participation across the schemes, the process of restorative justice (including what happened during conferences and mediation) and any follow up by schemes of outcomes.

This report sets out the views of young people with first-hand experience of what it is like leaving care, or being in the process of doing so.

Leaving care is the first subject in a series of reports setting out children and young people's views on subjects they have specifically asked the commission's Children's Rights Director to look into.

Mentoring schemes for young offenders are expensive and do not work, a new Youth Justice Board study has found.

Mentoring “succeeded in some respects – particularly in reintegratin

The second annual report for the Youth Offending Team (YOT) Inspection programme.

The programme is conducted by representatives of nine inspectorates and regulatory bodies, and is bein

Recent evidence suggests that teenagers are more likely to become victims of violent crime than adults, are also likely to suffer re-victimisation, and are less likely than other groups to report their victimisation.

This Statistical First Release provides summary information on the children accommodated in the 26 secure units in England and Wales.

This is an update of last year's release that was published on 26 August 2004.

Some young adults (16-25 year-olds) face acute and combined problems such as homelessness, unemployment and drug dependency.

This Social Exclusion Unit programme has been looking at the causes behind some young adult's troubled lives to see how services can be improved to prevent these people falling through a gap in support.

Transitions is the Social Exclusion Unit's interim report looking at 16 - 25 year-olds with severe or multiple problems.