Sector Practice
The latest Sector Practices on the Youth Justice Resource Hub
Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people
Published: 31/07/2024
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.
Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service (CYJS) partnership with The Chuckery
Published: 31/07/2024
Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service (CYJS) have partnered up with a local community project called The Chuckery, which offers a range of opportunities for children and young people locally.
Presentation from the Traveller Movement on the traveller community and their needs in the criminal justice system
Published: 31/07/2024
Summary: The Traveller Movement is a charity that works with ethnic Romany (Gypsies), Roma & Irish Travellers to tackle discrimination and promote equality. They have shared a presentation which was developed as part of a Youth Justice Board forum on developing practice. It explores the background of the traveller community, their experience of the criminal…
Resettlement Policy from Buckinghamshire Youth Offending Service
Published: 24/07/2024
Buckinghamshire Youth Offending Service has developed a resettlement policy which outlines how practitioners can support children in effective resettlement following a custodial sentence.
Sefton Community Youth Connectors
Published: 21/05/2024
Summary: A project to support the emotional wellbeing of girls aged 8 – 15yrs old at risk of poor mental health, offending, anti-social behaviour and exploitation. The project was prompted by concerns about girls in Sefton’s youth justice cohort who had poor emotional health and were at risk of committing offences and potentially being at risk exploitation
Swindon YJS Kindness Room
Published: 21/05/2024
To support children and families by providing free household equipment and food that can be taken home from the office. The Kindness room has been filled by donations from the local community and staff. One of the recent staff activities was a challenge to engage with the local community and in doing this, donations that can support children and families have been received.
Get involved – Youth Justice Application Framework (YJAF) Research
Published: 02/05/2024
We are working with researchers from a company called NEC Digital to better understand the different needs and challenges experienced by users of the Youth Justice Application Framework (YJAF). This research aims to help us make future improvements to the YJAF system. To get a wider understanding of YJAF users’ needs and challenges they would like to talk to YJS Practitioners (10 in total) and YJS Managers (5 in total).
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