Victims
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.
Darlington Young People’s Engagement & Justice Service’s victim support
Published: 25/02/2025
Darlington Young People’s Engagement and Justice Service (YPEJS) endeavour to deliver a flexible and bespoke response to all victims of crime in the area. The service has shared its victim assessment tool and accompanying prompt sheet to use with victims of crime to offer support and signpost to relevant services.
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…
Facing the Impact: a restorative justice film from Southwark Youth Justice Service and the Restorative Justice Council
Published: 27/01/2025
Produced in collaboration with Southwark Youth Justice Service, the Restorative Justice Council and Roadworks Media, ‘Facing the Impact’ explores the process and impact of using restorative justice after a child commits a violent assault on a police officer.
Turning the tide: transforming children’s lives on the Isle of Wight
Published: 18/12/2024
By Steph Roberts-Bibby, YJB Chief Executive Officer I visited the Isle of Wight’s youth justice service (YJS) to learn more about the great work the team is doing as part of its improvement journey. After a bracing ferry trip, we travelled to the YJS’s head office, set within Newport Town County Hall. Pastel Victorian shopfronts…
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.
‘Digital Me’ part 2 – An animated video on restorative justice by Gateshead Youth Justice Service
Published: 13/11/2024
An animated video created by Gateshead Youth Justice Service and Digital Voice for Communities, a non-profit organisation which works with people of all ages and abilities to deliver digital inclusion projects. The video was co-produced and scripted by case workers, victim and children on the theme of restorative justice and serious violence.
‘Digital Me’ – An animated video from Gateshead Youth Justice Service
Published: 22/10/2024
Gateshead Youth Justice Service and Digital Voice for Communities, a non-profit organisation which works to deliver digital inclusion projects, has produced animated video which captures children’s experiences of the youth justice system.
Exploring the production and utilisation of pre-sentence reports (PSRs) in the youth justice system
Published: 28/05/2024
This research project investigated the use and quality of pre-sentence reports (PSRs) in the youth justice system. The research also explored whether PSRs might contribute to racial disparity in sentencing decisions as identified by previous YJB-funded research. PSRs bring together important information about the child to help inform the court’s sentencing decision.
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