Summary: Attached is the link to the YJB report concerned with ethnic disproportionality for children who are remanded and sentenced. Description: The ethnic disproportionality in remand and sentencing in the youth justice system report uses two years of the YJB- case management and assessment data to better understand the extent of ethnic disproportionality in…
Summary: Attached are the slides and link to the recording of the Youth Justice Board live session (2020) concerned with the over-representation of children in the youth justice system. Description: In November 2020, Islington Youth Offending Service, Blackburn with Darwen Youth Justice Service and YJB colleagues run the YJB Live session on over-representation of children…
Summary: Attached is a copy of the template used with magistrates and district judges to provide feedback on the quality of information of report, co-created by seven youth justice services. Aims: Capture feedback from magistrates and district judges to support improvement of Court reports. Support the 7 services to gather feedback around improving…
Summary: Attached is Tower Hamlets and City of London Youth Justice Service toolkit, which is used at their management board to help identify and challenge disproportionality. Aim: Help highlight, track and challenge some key disproportionality concerns in Tower Hamlets and City of London Youth Justice Service and partners Description: The Tower…
Summary: Attached is a copy of the template used with children at Court when agreeing bail conditions with children. Aims: Ensure consistency around bail support plans amongst the 7 services that share Highbury Corner Court. Provide the Court with enough information to be able to make informed bail decisions. Description:Camden, Enfield,…
Summary: Youth justice services have produced an evaluation for a programme designed to tackle key issues in regards to disproportionality of ethnic minority (including White minority) children in the Criminal Justice System in Islington and Haringey services.
Summary: Link to Young Advisors Report, published in 2020 produced by Leaders Unlocked which identifies some of the experiences of children that have been through the criminal justice system.
Summary: Attached are some resources to inform staff and volunteers on racism, discrimination and inequalities. Description: ‘None of us can fail to have been touched by the death of George Floyd and the renewed focus that it has rightly given to racism and discrimination. The Youth Justice Board has consistently set the tackling of disproportionality as…