Practice
Surrey YJS’s Side by Side programme
Published: 06/03/2025
The Side by Side Programme is funded by the Surrey Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) and delivered by Surrey Youth Justice Service. The programme supports children who have been the victims of crime.
Cheshire Youth Justice Service’s victim audit tool
Published: 29/01/2025
Summary: Cheshire Youth Justice Service has developed a victim audit tool to ensure practice supports HM Inspectorate of Probation framework expectations for victims of crime and to inform development plans. Description: The victim audit tool helps youth justice practitioners reflect on their work with victims of crime and determine areas of effective practice and areas…
The YJB’s anti-racism resources
Published: 21/01/2025
A collection of resources on addressing racial disparity in the youth justice system.
How to write ‘to the child’ from Lincolnshire Youth Justice Service
Published: 08/01/2025
This comprehensive guidance document from Lincolnshire Youth Justice Service has been developed to inform youth justice practitioners on ‘writing to the child’.
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.
Child First? Examining children’s perspectives of their ‘effective’ collaboration in youth justice decision-making
Published: 12/12/2024
This report, published in December 2024, provides details of a Child First research project undertaken to gain a greater understanding of what children supervised by youth justice services and held in custody think about their collaboration in youth justice decision-making processes.
Salford Youth Justice Service – AQA Unit Award Centre
Published: 04/12/2024
Salford Youth Justice Service has become an AQA unit award centre to address the barriers to children achieving education outcomes.
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.
Child First webinar: Examining Children’s Collaboration in the Youth Justice System
Published: 24/10/2024
This webinar provides youth justice professionals with information on how to facilitate the implementation of Child First justice (especially tenet three of the vital importance of children as full collaborators in decision-making about matters affecting them) in practice in organisations across the youth justice system. During the webinar, researchers Dr Kathy Hampson, Aberystwyth University, Andrea…
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