Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people
Summary:
Cheshire Youth Justice Service is tackling reoffending by addressing children’s unmet health needs. Through the creation of an innovative social prescribing approach, the initiative is helping to meet the wider health needs of children who encounter the justice system, from the point of arrest to post-sentence, across all four local authorities. Child and adolescent mental health specialists (CAMHS), speech and language therapists and substance misuse counsellors are being offered across the county.
The approach is currently funded by a ‘social prescribing pot’ of funding that the service has collated by pooling multiple funding sources. As the approach develops and further proof of its efficacy becomes available, Cheshire YJS hopes to seek sustainable funding to continue the model.
You can view the full case study on the Local Government website at Cheshire: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people.
Contact:
| Name: | Tom Dooks |
| Email: | tom.dooks@youthjusticeservices.org.uk |