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Youth detention center. In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home[2] is a prison for people under the age of majority ...
His Majesty's Young Offenders Institution (Her Majesty's Youth Offenders Institution if the reigning monarch is female) (or HM YOI) are youth detention centres for offenders between ages 15 to 21 in the United Kingdom.
The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid Òigridh na h-Alba) is a youth-led, democratic organisation which aims to represent the young people of Scotland. The SYP is made up of around 166 democratically elected representatives aged 14–25 from across Scotland. [1][2] Representatives are known as Members of the Scottish ...
A youth center or youth centre, often called youth club, is a place where young people can meet and participate in a variety of activities, for example table football, association football (US soccer, UK football), basketball, table tennis, video games, occupational therapy and religious activities. Youth clubs and centres vary in their activities across the globe, and have diverse histories ...
The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland is a post in Scotland whose main task is to promote and safeguard the rights of children and young people. The position, equivalent to the Children's Ombudsman agencies of many other countries, was established by the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003. [1] The current Commissioner is Nicola Killean.
A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a borstal school. Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform young offenders. The word originated from the first such institution ...
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed on 19 February 2014 and received royal assent on 27 March 2014. [1] The legislation is part of the Scottish Government's Getting it right for every child policy implementation.
History of education in Scotland. Carving of a 17th-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys.