Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System
Forewords from the First Minister of Wales, the Chief Inspector of Prisons & the Chair of the Youth Justice Board -- 1. Introduction -- Part one. Child First: Challenging youth justice systems -- 2. Challenging punitive youth justice -- 3. Challenging the risk paradigm: Children First, Positive Youth Justice -- 4. Challenging historical populism. Children First, Offenders Second: From Concept to Policy -- 5. Child First and Children's Rights: An opportunity to advance rights-based youth justice -- Part two. Child First: Developing youth justice policy -- 6. Developing Child First youth justice policy in England and Wales: A view from inside the YJB and Westminster -- 7. Developing principled youth justice standards -- 8. Child First in the criminal courts -- Part three. Child First: Developing youth justice practice -- 9. Child First: Thinking through the implications for policy and practice -- 10. The place of risk within Child First Justice: An exploration of the perspectives of youth justice practitioners -- 11. Cementing Child First in practice -- 12. Embracing children's voices: Transforming Youth Justice practice through co-production and Child First participation -- 13. Discussion and Conclusion: Future challenges and opportunities for Child First justice.