This section contains tools, toolkits and templates to help you with your strategy and process. They include example resources such as policies, procedures and ways of working that support positive working relationships and development of staff. 

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  • Derby City YJS’s Secure estate asset tracking document
    Derby City Youth Justice Service has shared its assessment schedule for youth justice practitioners and secure estate staff working with children going into custody. The document includes different actions and assessments with scheduled timeframes to complete as a child passes through the different stages of the secure estate; before, during and after.
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  • Leicestershire Youth Justice Service’s Child Self Assessment
    Leicestershire Youth Justice Service have stylised the YJB’s Child First Self-Assessment Toolkit which can be used with children. This Child Self-Assessment resource should be used alongside the prevention and diversion assessment.
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  • Mankind programme from South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service
    South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service’s Mankind programme is designed to support young boys to develop a pro-social identity.
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  • YJB’s Girls Working Group Webinar
    The YJB’s girls working group is a space for professionals working with girls in the youth justice sector to share best practice. In this webinar we hear from both Coventry Youth Justice Service and Cardiff Youth Justice Service on their approaches to working with girls, as well as Dr Gilly Sharpe from the University of…
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  • YJB’s Child First Self-Assessment Toolkit
    The Child First Self-Assessment toolkit is a self-led resource which invites organisations to consider how far into the Child First journey they may be. 
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  • Prevention and Diversion Assessment Tool Q&A Webinar
    Summary: The YJB has launched a new assessment tool for youth justice services working with children subject to prevention, diversion and formal out-of-court disposals. The tool has been developed with a number of key partners, including youth justice practitioners, academics and HM Inspectorate of Probation.
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  • YJB’s Prevention and Diversion Assessment Tool
    The Youth Justice board has introduced a new assessment tool which must be used for all cases that are subject to diversion and out-of-court intervention. The tool has been developed with consultation with a number of key partners, including front line practitioners, academics, HMIP and others. The use of the new assessment tool is optional for cases that are considered prevention.
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  • Practice and safeguarding standards – Communications Toolkit For Partners (August 2023)
    Summary: Practice and safeguarding standards – communications toolkit for partners.
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  • Problem-Solving Courts: A Guide to Practice in the United Kingdom and Procedural Fairness Toolkit – The Centre for Justice Innovation (April 2023)
    Summary: The Centre for Justice Innovation has published a practice guide regarding problem solving courts.
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  • Child Impact Assessment Toolkit for Children whose Father/Parent is Going Through the Criminal Justice System: This is Me – Families Outside (December 2022)
    Summary: Access to a co-created toolkit for professional working with children whose father/parent is going through the criminal justice system to ensure their voice ad support needs are identified.
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