The Believe Project from Newport Youth Justice Service
Newport Youth Justice Service works in partnership with local agencies to provide several initiatives to support children and raise their awareness in understanding risky behaviours.
Newport Youth Justice Service works in partnership with local agencies to provide several initiatives to support children and raise their awareness in understanding risky behaviours.
Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly Youth Justice Service’s volunteering policy explains the approach and processes underpinning volunteer recruitment and retention.
South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service’s Mankind programme is designed to support young boys to develop a pro-social identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Birmingham Children’s Trust is providing a holistic tailormade support programme to girls who are at risk of offending, or have offended.
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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