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.
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Summary: Barnet, Bristol, Southwark and Tameside youth justice service have shared practice xamples of their Referral Order contracts. Description: Barnet, Bristol, Southwark and Tameside youth justice services have shared their Referral Order contract templates, which have been adapted to make them more accessible to children and families/carers. Barnet youth justice service Referral Order contract (2020) Bristol youth…
Summary: An engagement resource for working with children and their families/carers created by West Mercia Youth Justice Service. Description: West Mercia youth justice service have created and established ‘Let’s work together to stop offending and achieve a good life’ engagement tool. The tools supports children and their families through their initial stages of contact with the Service. The…
Summary: Darlington youth justice serevice have shared their resource to support children charged with theft offences to explore and challenge their behaviours. Description: Darlington youth justice serevice have shared their workbook and accompanying tutor notes and materials, used with children to explore a range of acquisitive offences with the aim of exploring and challenging these behaviours. There are four distinct sessions of…
Summary: The trauma informed pathfinder have shared a workshop and associated materials looking at how youth justice practitioners can complete assessments in a trauma informed way. Description: As part of the trauma informed Pathfinder, Cwm Taf youth justice service ran a variety of bite size training session through 2021 and 2022 to support colleagues across England and Wales…
Summary: Bristol youth offending service have shared material provided to victim/s that gives them an overview of restorative options available to them. Description:Bristol youth offending service have shared their leaflet and feedback form that is provided to all victims. The leaflet provides an overview of the restorative justice options that may be available to victims and the feedback…
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:Newport Youth Justice Service…
Summary: Camden, Essex, Hartlepool, Islington and North Yorkshire youth justice services have shared some of their reparation and unpaid work programmes they run locally. Description: Camden, Essex, Hartlepool, Islington and North Yorkshire youth justice services have shared some of their reparation (and unpaid work) programmes that they run. What all the services have in common is that children…
Summary: 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. Description: The aim of the London Accommodation Pathfinder is to provide an alternative to Youth Detention Accommodation…
Summary: This form aims to provide a brief overview of a child's circumstances to help identify potential needs or concerns in order to inform the level of intervention. Description: Manchester Youth Justice have provided a form designed to briefly screen a child's circumstances with a view to making a decision on the outcome, whether this is with reference…
Summary: Fearless is a resource that aims to support children to be aware of the impact of knives/weapons and to increase knowledge around them. Description:Nottingham City Youth Offending Team use the Fearless resource with children that are identified by local schools at risk of offending and or anti-social behaviour. The session includes: weapons, vandalism, graffiti, arson, vehicle crime,…
Summary: The Met Detention have shared a presentation provided for their staff on the children in custody golden hour information exchange. Description: Information sharing between local authority and police when a child is in custody had been identified as an area for development from local authorities, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Met police. In response to the identified area…
Summary: Access to the Sentence Trouble guide, published by the Communication Trust which is concerned with communication with children, particularly those children with communication needs. Description: The Communication Trust has published Sentence Trouble (in conjunction with The Dyslexia SpLD Trust), which is a guide to help improve understanding and communication with children and young people, particular those with…