Working with Children
This section contains materials and resources, including interventions, programmes and toolkits that are used by youth justice services with children. The material in this section has been produced by youth justice services in-house or with support from partners. The materials in this section are not evaluated. You can find youth justice evaluated materials in the practice-based evaluations area on this site. If you would like to submit a programme, intervention or a way of working with children that works well in your service to the Youth Justice Resource Hub, please complete the submission form.
Reparation Tintern Weed Project – Newport Youth Justice Service (August 2022)
Published: 04/11/2022
Summary: Newport Youth Justice Service have shared their Tintern Weed reparation project for children on statutory and non-statutory orders. Aims: Supports both children on the periphery and those within the criminal justice system, to develop trusting adult relationships and build strengths and skills to support them to desist from offending and establish prosocial lives. Description:…
London Accommodation Pathfinder Operations Manual and Storyboard
Published: 05/10/2022
London Accommodation Pathfinder, which provides alternative accommodation to Youth Detention Accommodation, have shared their operating manual to support key stakeholders and youth justice services to ensure consistency. They have also shared their storyboard to use with children and their parents/careers.
Videos for Children – “What is the Youth Justice Service” and Expectations – Various Youth Justice Services (updated August 2022)
Published: 22/09/2022
Summary Barnet, Enfield and Coventry Youth Justice Services have shared their videos created by children for children explaining what the youth justice service is and what it does. Description Barnet, Enfield and Coventry Youth Justice Services have shared co-produced videos describing what the youth justice service is and how it works. The video is used…
Triage Panel and Liaison and Diversion Service – Barnsley Youth Justice Service (July 2022)
Published: 26/08/2022
Summary Barnsley Youth Justice Service have shared their liaison and diversion process including assessment tool and associated information to support implementing a triage panel. Description Barnsley Youth Justice Service have shared a practice example, providing detail on implementation, delivery, a case example, lessons learned, practice evaluations and future developments of their triage panel. The triage…
Children’s Intervention Plan: Traffic Lights – Wirral Youth Justice Service (May 2022)
Published: 18/07/2022
Summary Wirral Youth Justice Service have shared their intervention plan template that they use with children to support them to identify their goals and barriers to desistence. Description Wirral Youth Justice Service have shared their intervention tool used with children to support them to identify their goals and barriers to desistence: The intervention is completed…
Using Trauma Informed Care to Engage Exploited Children and Their Families – Trauma Informed Pathfinder (May 2022)
Published: 15/07/2022
Summary The Trauma-Informed Pathfinder have shared a webinar with associated materials to showcase the work and methodology in working with children who are exploited and their families in a trauma-informed way. Description The Trauma Informed Pathfinder led by the East Sussex youth offending service has delivered a webinar and associated slides that provide an overview…
The South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortium: Overview – The South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Pathfinder (March 2022)
Published: 27/06/2022
Summary Overview and learning that emerged through the South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortium Pathfinder from 2019 to 2022. Description The South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortium Pathfinder came to an end in March 2022. They have shared an overview report, which describes the work that was undertaken. You may also find of interest the…
Child Exploitation Risk Assessment and Management Tool – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 24/05/2022
Summary: Cambridgeshire County Council have shared their child exploitation risk assessment and management tool as well as a short review of the tool.
Diversion Programme: DIVERT Youth – Lancashire Child First Pathfinder (May 2022)
Published: 20/05/2022
Summary Lancashire Child First Pathfinder have shared a case study of how DIVERT youth diversion programme works in practice. Description DIVERT is a diversion programme helping children in Lancashire to support diverting them out of the youth justice system. Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service wanted a community-based true Diversion offer for children who it…
Practitioner Cultural Competence Resource: Working with Exploited Children – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 19/05/2022
Summary Suffolk County Lines Pathfinder have shared a resource, associated evaluation and further resources aimed at supporting professionals in increasing their confidence in working with those children who experience exploitation. Description Suffolk County Lines Pathfinder have shared their identifying elements of cultural competence within a child criminal exploitation cohort (please be aware that some of…
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