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.
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: 6-week intervention plan - A useful…
Summary: Darlington youth offending service have shared an intevention session aimed at children to address discriminatory attitudes, specifically racism. Description: Darlington youth offending service have shared their intervention session, printable materials and tutor notes aimed at addressing discriminatory attitudes, specifically racism, through a mixture of education and cognitive behavioural style exercises. The duration of the programme can be between 5 to…
Summary: Attached is the knife crime toolkit delivered by MOPAC to support staff working with children at risk of carrying or using a knife. Description: The Brave Space: knife crime toolkit (2021) has been delivered by London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and designed by BraveSpace (a youth justice consultancy) in partnership with children and young people…
Summary: The Youth Justice Board published two key documents concerned with enhanced case management in relation to child first principles. Description: The Youth Justice Board, in collaboration with stakeholders produced and published two core documents in relation to enhanced case management and child first principles: Enhanced Case Management: Implementing the Approach (2020) – practice guidance aimed at assissting youth…
Summary: Infomation reguarding Alprozolam, also known as Xanax. Description: Alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax (after one of the most common brand names), is an anti-anxiety medicine in the benzodiazepine family and similar to diazepam (Valium). Alprazolam is however around 10 times stronger and has a quicker/shorter-acting effect. Those that take alprazolam may quite quickly feel relaxed, tired and…
Summary: Cwm Taf Youth Offending Service have provided an overview of preventative support to children that are on the fringes of the youth justice system and aims to divert those that have committed an offence for the first time through its Youth Bureau process. Description: Cwm Taf Youth Offending Prevention and Early Intervention Service have shared a short…
Summary: Details of ‘letter box’ reparation programme which sees children completing letters etc. for those most vulnerable people in the local community. Description: Prior to lockdown Sheffield and Rotherham services, in partnership with Remedi* agreed to make up creative packs to deliver to children so that they would be able to continue to complete their reparation from home.…
Summary: A factsheet made for children in Wales concerning Police powers around stop and search, interviews and the charging processes. Description: The Children’s Legal Centre Wales have published Stopped, Arrested, Interviewed, Charged – A Guide for Under 18s factsheet guide for children under the age of 18 years. The factsheet explains some of the different things the police have…
Summary: The Trauma-Informed Pathfinder have shared a webinar with associated materials to show case the work and methodology in working with children who are exploited and their families in a trauma-informed way. Description: The Trauma Informed Pathfinder lead by East Sussex youth offending service have delivered a webinar and associated slides that provides an overview of the work…
Summary: A variety of worksheets, created by the Youth Justice Board in 2016, that can be adapted to support engagement and co-creation with children. Description: In 2016, Youth Justice Board created a variety of tools, which were originally adapted from existing templated used by youth justice services to support co-creating and agreeing plans with children. The tools…
Summary: Sandwell youth justice service, as part of the Pathfinder project have developed a web-based platform to support children and parents in accessing information and interventions. Description: As part of the Pathfinder funding, Sandwell youth justice service produced a web-based platform, Sandwell Hub for children and parents. Sandwell Hub has dedicated areas including; The information hub – contains…
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 following published…