Annex 2
YJB CHANGE PROGRAMMES
SECURE ACCOMMODATION
CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
This is an on-going 10-year plan to deliver
the principles set out in the YJB's Strategy for the Secure
Estate for Children and Young People. To view the strategy, visit
http://www.yjb.gov.uk/publications/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=324&eP
The programme is designed to improve or reconfigure
the built environment by redeveloping or developing new establishments.
Aims include:
(iii) young people being located as close as
possible to their home community, enabling stronger ties and accessibility;
and
(iv) safer environments that better meet the
needs of young people.
SECURE ACCOMMODATION
REGIME DEVELOPMENT
The objective of this on-going programme is
also to deliver the principles set out in the YJB's Strategy
for the Secure Estate for Children and Young People, in this
case, by introducing, evaluating and further developing services
that significantly contribute to the regime in secure establishments
for young people. Aims include:
— development of a child- and young
person-focused culture;
— regimes fundamentally geared to the individual
young offender's health, education, training, recreational, cultural
and personal development needs;
— establishments run by staff who have
completed nationally approved training, and are committed to working
with children and young people; and
— minimising the likelihood of harm
to young people through integrated and rigorous safeguarding measures,
including well-developed self-harm, suicide and bullying prevention
programmes.
WIRING UP
YOUTH JUSTICE
This on-going programme is being delivered in
stages up to 2010 subject to sufficient funding being provided,
with the aim of achieving a more integrated youth justice system.
Aims include:
— ensuring that all youth justice system
practitioners have a case management system capable of exchanging
information between YOTs, the YJB and secure estate providers—the
initial focus is reducing the risk of harm to young people, as
they move from the community to custody (Module 1);
— enhancing community-based prevention
activities by improving the flow of information from the police,
and ensuring that youth justice practitioners are integrated with
children's services practitioners locally and nationally (Module
2); and
— improving the flow of information
between youth justice practitioners and the wider criminal justice
system—in particular the National Offender Management Service,
the police, the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service (Module
3).
For further information, visit the Wiring Up
Youth Justice website www.wiringupyouthjustice.info
YOUTH JUSTICE:
THE SCALED
APPROACH
Youth Justice: the Scaled Approach is a two-to
three-year project to support youth justice services by adopting
a scaled approach to intervention—that is, one based more
on the assessed level of risk of individual young people. It is
designed to:
— improve practice in individual assessment
(Asset) completion, the writing of pre-sentence reports, and intervention-planning.
To achieve this, the YJB's advice to Ministers
on National Standards for Youth Justice Services are being revised,
and new case management guidance produced. The project is aimed
at helping YOTs focus resources on those who need it most.
YOUTH JUSTICE
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
FRAMEWORK
This is a project to design and implement a
revise "end-to-end" performance management framework
over the next two to three years. The benefits will be:
— increased focus on outcomes for the
child or young person, and on the impact of interventions on preventing
offending and reducing reoffending;
— better use of limited YJB resources,
and more focus on less, but higher quality, monitoring information;
— ensuring the youth justice service
providers' performance data are as accessible as possible, and
suitable for many audiences; and
— aligning YOT and secure estate management
information systems into a performance framework to inform understanding
of the transition children and young people make from community
to custody to community.
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