Health & Wellbeing
Flintshire Youth Justice Service’s Soft Outcomes Tool
Published: 07/01/2025
Flintshire Youth Justice Service has designed a tool to gather information from children about how they feel about various aspects of their lives, including mental health, school and substance misuse.
Money and Pensions Service Financial Education Guidance for Children’s Services
Published: 17/12/2024
Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has shared guides and a toolkit to support children’s services staff working with children in vulnerable circumstances embed opportunities for learning about money into the support they provide.
Oldham Youth Justice Service and Mind’s wellbeing coaching project
Published: 28/10/2024
Oldham Youth Justice Service and Mind have partnered to provide wellbeing coaching for children identified through the youth justice service assessment as having emotional wellbeing or mental health concerns.
Back2Nature programme from Soul Trail & Newport YJS
Published: 18/10/2024
Newport Youth Justice Service has commissioned the charity Soul Trail Wellbeing to run its Back2Nature programme, designed to support children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. The practice aims to provide children with a relaxed space in nature to walk, process their feelings and feel a sense of calm while having fun, learning new things and meeting others.
Whispers equine assisted learning programme
Published: 02/09/2024
Located in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, the Whispers equine assisted learning (EAL) programme is a unique trauma-informed intervention. Delivered in partnership with the local youth justice service and social services, the programme combines the benefits of experiential learning involving horses with expert guidance from trained facilitators.
Allotment wellbeing project ‘Sown and Grown’ at Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly YJS
Published: 05/08/2024
‘Sown and Grown’ is an allotment wellbeing project open to children referred to the Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly youth justice service.
Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people
Published: 31/07/2024
Cheshire Youth Justice Service have focussed on addressing young people’s unmet health needs to tackle reoffending. The creation of the Cheshire-wide youth justice partnership in 2017 highlighted inequalities in justice-involved children’s health provision, which they have worked to address, and are now taking an innovative social prescribing approach to meet the wider health needs of their youth justice cohort.
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