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Justice Secretary David Lammy has announced the "biggest shake up in 20 years", unveiling plans to reduce the number of young people held on remand despite later being found innocent. Saying many leave custody worse off. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00we have got too many young people on remand at this moment in time many of
00:07those young people will actually be found innocent obviously in prison they
00:12are mixing sometimes with criminals and coming out worse we've got too many
00:17young people the prolific offenders we need to deal with more young people in
00:22communities one of the things that I'm announcing in this justice white paper
00:26is more support support for specialist foster carers of these very vulnerable
00:31young people so they can be in communities yes sometimes with a tag but
00:36supported in a loving home that helps them get to the point where they're not
00:40reoffending
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