As part of the Young Women’s Justice Project, Agenda Alliance and AYJ have published a new briefing paper spotlighting the severe mental health problems facing young women in our prisons.

The government has introduced the Sentencing Bill to Parliament. Here, we summarise proposals which will impact children in the youth justice system

The government has introduced the Criminal justice Bill to Parliament. We explain proposals which if passed into law will impact children in, or at risk of entering, the youth justice system

AYJ comment on HMI Prisons’ annual Children in Custody report and an inspection report on Werrington YOI, exposing deeply concerning conditions within the secure estate for children

The AYJ has responded to a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation on youth remand funding arrangements. The response summarises discussions that took place in a meeting convened between expert AYJ members and the MoJ remand consultation team to feed in their views.

At the end of October, the Young Advocates attended their first residential!

The AYJ has submitted evidence to a Justice Select Committee inquiry into the future prison population and estate capacity, in order to draw the Committee’s attention to how the Ministry of Justice's current strategy for managing the adult prison population is impacting children and young people in the children’s secure estate.