LATEST NEWS

In the latest episode of the AYJ’s podcast series, we spotlight on the ground-breaking new report ‘The Life of a Top Boy’, which centres the perspectives of young Black men about trauma and violence in the community.

This week the AYJ says goodbye to Pippa Goodfellow, who has been the AYJ’s Chief Executive for the past five years.

The AYJ is delighted to announce that the Charity Commission has registered us as a charity, following our recent application and has been entered onto the Register of Charities.

This is the second report from the Young Advocates Project, which has been co-produced by children and young people with first-hand experience of the youth justice system.

On 8th February we held a launch event for our report on supporting racially minoritised young people transitioning to adulthood, bringing together policymakers, voluntary and community sector organisations, and young people.

AYJ comment on HMI Prisons’ inspection report on Wetherby Young Offender Institution (YOI)

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jess Mullen as its new Chief Executive, who will be joining the organisation in May.

The AYJ has published a report calling for reforms to ensure that as racially minoritised young people in the criminal justice system turn 18, the ‘by and for’ voluntary and community sector is there to support them.

Longford prize winners Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) share a quest blog as a new AYJ member, about the harms of joint enterprise and the change needed

On 24th January we hosted our Quarterly Members’ Meeting, which featured a presentation from Steph Roberts-Bibby, Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB).

As part of our project exploring the experiences of young people transitioning into adulthood whilst in the justice system, the AYJ team visited the Youth to Adult Hub in Newham, London, to learn about the pilot approach to probation