youth justice

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Inclusion as Prevention (IAP)

[South Lanarkshire Council (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: “Inclusion as prevention” was a five year project to improve services for young people, with young people themselves at its heart.

Keywords: young people, prevention, diversion

Involving Children & Families in Police Training

[Islington YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: a bi-monthly training session for student officers with Islington & Camden Police, involving children and their parents/carers, exploring their experiences of policing, in particular stop and search.

Keywords: young people, lived experience, community relations

Social Prescribing Programme

[Cheshire YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: focusing on social prescirbing for young people at the point of arrest.

Keywords: young people, mental health, wellbeing

The Chuckery Project

[Lancashire YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Chuckery is a not-for-profit sanctuary-farm housing rescue poultry and other livestock; Lancashire YJS has partnered with the farm to provide opportunities for young people to volunteer at the Chuckery, in roles tailored to their skills and interests.

Keywords: young people, engagement, skills training, wellbeing

Youth Connectors Programme

[Sefton YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Sefton’s Youth Connectors are a small team of female youth workers assigned to schools in the area to provide 1-2-1 support and mentoring to girls aged 8-15 years considered at heightened risk of offending or exploitation.

Keywords: young people, female offenders, mental health, wellbeing

A thematic review of outcomes for girls in custody

[HMI Prisons (2022)]

Report on a thematic review of outcomes for girls in custody by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.

Keywords: young people, female offenders

Effective point-of-arrest diversion for children and young people

[Clinks (2022)]

Evidence review by Clinks into effective point-of-arrest diversion for children and young people, including good practice principles. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].

Keywords: young people, diversion

Early intervention for gambling-related crime

[Russell Webster (2022)]

Paper summarising findings of a conference on gambling, including recommendations for early intevention, including routine screening on arrest.

Keywords: gambling

Child Exploitation service (CACE)

[East Sussex YJS (2023)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Collaboration Against Child Exploitation (CACE) is a parent-led partnership between East Sussex YJS and local parents with lived experience of child exploitation.

Keywords: young people, exploitation

Listen to Me video

[Gateshead YJS (2023)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Listen to Me is a video scripted, voiced and animated by young people, for other young people involved in the CJS, on how they became involved in offending, their experiences of the CJS, and what worked for them to help them stop offending.

Keywords: young people, diversion, crime prevention, peer engagement