Planned changes to youth justice system aimed at keeping more children out of jail / Guardian, 17 June 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/17/youthjustice.justice1
Alan Travis
"A shakeup of the youth justice system is being planned by ministers that would see a failing punitive policy replaced by a more welfare-oriented, early-intervention approach to dealing with children in trouble. As part of a youth crime action plan to be published this summer, the Home Office has recommended that responsibility and funding for tackling youth crime - including local youth offending teams - should be moved to new, local authority-run "children's trusts"."