Intervention Plans – Community and Custody (Asset)

Published:

Aim:

  • Support practitioners to comprehensively plan and review intervention plans with young people their parents/carers and other supporting agencies
  • Support practitioners that have not yet gone live with AssetPlus

Description:

The intervention plans have been produced by Peterborough YOS to support practitioners to plan robust intervention plans with young people. The information that is gathered to complete the Plans is from the assessment interviews with young people, their families as well as external agencies.
There are three forms, one for a community sentence (YRO), and two for custody cases.

The custody and resettlement plan is used as a tandem document to the statutory ‘T’ forms used by the custodial establishment. Peterborough hold tandem meetings locally to encourage professionals and family who are unable to travel to the secure establishment, to be able to contribute to the custody plan and plan for resettlement at the earliest opportunity. This process has proved particularly fortuitous in relation to Education, Training and Employment planning as we find that education, Local Education Authority representatives and training providers do not have the resource to travel to secure establishments. The other custody document allows Peterborough to plan and review through the community phase of the custodial sentence.

Meetings take the form of a Team around the Child meeting, this is a recognised procedure and has encouraged other agencies to attend. Since using this format and paperwork Peterborough have seen a massive increase in parental and other agency attendance.
The Plan allows for other agency plans to be acknowledged, diversity and barriers to engagement to be addressed, and has a fluidity to it, which allows for changes to be made easily at review stages.

Young people are also asked to complete the MARS (My Acknowledged Risks and Strengths) exercise before the initial planning meeting which Peterborough have found supports young people to identify where some of the priority needs should be in terms of work sessions.

Implementing:

  • All staff members, will need to be familiar with the information requested in the forms in order to support the assessment process
  • Due to Peterborough YOS being so far away from their nearest establishment, often parents and stakeholders are unable to attend planning meetings there, so they hold them shortly before each custodial planning meeting locally to increase attendance. This ensures that their views and suggestions are taken into account at the planning meeting
  • All planning meetings at Peterborough YOS are chaired by a manager and as part of the role the chair should also note how the plan is link to ASSET domains
  • The Intervention Plan also incorporates a health plan
  • Parents and professionals are routinely invited to both the initial plan and review planning meetings
  • The initial planning meeting is booked at Court and parents are told there is an expectation that they attend.
  • Documents are scanned and saved on the young person’s electronic file

Contact:

YJS:Peterborough Youth Offending Service
Name:Claire Ward
Telephone:01733 864210
Emailclaire.ward@peterborough.gov.uk