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Recruiting, training and retaining volunteers policy from Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly Youth Offending Service

Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly Youth Justice Service’s volunteering policy explains the approach and processes underpinning volunteer recruitment and retention.

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Integration in youth justice services in England and Wales

Youth justice services in England and Wales vary in their organisational structure. Some remain structurally separate from other teams in the local authority, while others have become more integrated. This research focused on the concept of integration; exploring how youth justice services are currently structured, what “integration” means for to service and case managers, and the advantages and challenges of different approaches.

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Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly Youth Justice Service’s voluntary intervention programme for the resolution of unpaid fixed penalty notices

Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly Youth Justice Service has shared its voluntary intervention programme which works with children who have engaged in anti-social behaviour and failed to respond to a fixed penalty notice.

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Guidance on offensive weapon and knife carrying in schools from Northumbria PCC Violence Reduction Unit

Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit has developed guidance for schools and pupil referral units (PRUs) for managing knife and offensive weapon carrying incidents on school premises.

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Project X:Year 6 Transition Project at Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service

Kingston and Richmond youth justice service are supporting children to successfully transition to secondary school through their year 6 transition project: Project X. It aims to not only to support children to move from primary to secondary school, but also identify the triggers and potential strategies to help children to thrive in a school setting.

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Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people

Cheshire Youth Justice Service have focussed on addressing young people’s unmet health needs to tackle reoffending.  The creation of the Cheshire-wide youth justice partnership in 2017 highlighted inequalities in justice-involved children’s health provision, which they have worked to address, and are now taking an innovative social prescribing approach to meet the wider health needs of their youth justice cohort.

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