Youth Justice in Jersey: Options for Change: A report commissioned by the Children's Policy Group

This report was commissioned by the Children's Policy Group (CPG); the Ministers for Health and Social Services (Chair), Education Sport and Culture, and Home Affairs. The drivers for the report include: the intention of the States of Jersey to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); the adoption of a statement by the CPG recognising that the best interests of the child shall be their paramount consideration the production of a Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP) for Jersey and the decision to incorporate children's offending within this; and concerns expressed by the Courts that they were powerless to deal with some of the children who appeared before them.