Members’ Bulletin March 2018
In this issue:
P2 Court changes – costs to YOTs Video Links Questions in Parliament P4 Executive welcomes YJB Board Member to meeting HMIP Local Assessor Nominations P5 Charlie Taylor’s presentation to SCYJ P6 AYM AGM & ILM Programmes P7 Safer Together Through Sport Youth Custody Service update P8 General Data Protection Regulations 2018 P10 Joint Ofsted & CQC Area Inspections of SEND P12 Ofsted Annual Report P13 Government Response to Justice Committee’s “Disclosure of Youth Criminal Records” P14 YJB National Protocol for Case Responsibility PCCs and Transitions P15 New Homelessness Guidance P16 In the News and more…
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Can you Quantify Court Closure Costs for Your YOT?
We are all aware of the pressures on youth court facilities. The HMCTS programme of court closures, and increasing digitalisation are putting strain on YOT resources, effectively pushing central costs onto local services.
AYM wants to know how this is affecting your work. What are these changes costing you, how do you quantify them, and how will you pay for them? We are aware of issues relating to increased travel costs, for young people, their families, and staff, on increasing costs to YOTs within court buildings, and the Delius court list difficulties.
We are engaging with HMCTS currently, so your views will be most welcome. We need to be able to quantify these issues so we can challenge central cost-cutting initiatives which lead to increased cost to local YOTs and reduced services to children and young people.
Please email your current situation to [email protected]
Video Links for Children & Young People
Richard Burgon MP, Leeds East and pictured right, has been asking some very pertinent and helpful questions of Lucy Frazer MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for MoJ.
The good news is that her answers confirm parents and YOTs have to be consulted on any application to use video links, as shown below.
Full details can be found on the Parliament website.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how the decision will be made on assessing whether a child defendant has the ability to effectively participate in court proceedings via a video link rather than in person; and what adjustments are made for a child appearing before a court via video link. [127170]
Lucy Frazer: HM Courts & Tribunals Service is committed to ensuring that children and young people who go to court understand what is happening, take part in the process and receive the appropriate support, including agreed adjustments. Criminal Practice Directions are in place and give guidance to the courts and users about how to effectively and appropriately make use of live links and telephone facilities. This includes guidance on how and when live links should be used for hearings and provides specific guidance for defendants aged under 18.
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The court will deal with any application for use of a video link on a case‐by‐case basis, after consultation with the parties, including parents and carers and the Youth Offending Team. The Ministry of Justice has not conducted an assessment of outcomes of hearings depending on whether video was used. Outcomes of hearings are a matter for the judiciary. HMCTS keeps parents and carers informed of hearing dates and times. The Ministry of Justice has not conducted an assessment of Youth Offending Teams’ ability to fulfil their statutory duties depending on whether a video link was used, but any decision to use a video link would be taken following consultation with the Youth Offending Team. http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers- statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-07/127170/
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants aged between 10 and 17 year's old have appeared in court via live video link in each year since 2010; and how many of those video link appearances were for (a) case management, (b) remand hearings and (c) sentencing in each of those years. [127038]
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child defendants with (a) speech and language difficulties (b) cognitive difficulties and (c) other vulnerabilities have been produced in court by video link in each year since 2010. [127040]
Lucy Frazer: While data on usage of video link is collected centrally by HM Courts & Tribunals Service, we are not able to break down this data by age, court appearance type or to identify any specific needs of the child defendant.
Richard Burgon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders institutions and secure training centres in England and Wales have live link facilities to allow children to take part in court proceedings over video from their custodial setting. [127039]
Lucy Frazer: All under 18 Young Offender Institutions (Cookham Wood, Feltham, Wetherby, Werrington and Parc) have Prison Court Video Link facilities. These facilities are not available in the three Secure Training Centres at Medway, Oakhill and Rainsbrook.
The AYM Executive is concerned about the HMCTS digitalisation plans, and would be interested to hear the views of members, and any examples where links have been used inappropriately. Please email your responses to [email protected]
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YJB Board Member welcomed at AYM Executive Meeting
In last month’s Newsletter we reported the new appointments to the YJB, including Ben Byrne from Surrey.
One of the first things Ben has done is join an AYM Exec meeting in London on 26th February. He is leading on one of the five priorities for the Board, on improving YOT practice, so we should all be hearing more on this in due course. The other Board priorities are addressing disproportionality, resettlement, custody including secure schools, and National Standards review.
We welcome improved relationships with the Board, especially in areas where we share views and values. It is of note that the recent Board appointments include people with knowledge of practice, which should help our work to reduce offending.
Ben is shown below with Exec members (left to right), Hazel Williamson, Jessica Edwards, Ben Byrne, Mike Rees, Lesley Tregear, Jacqui Belfield-Smith, Hannah Doughty, Ian Langley and Matt Bywater.
HMI Probation Local Assessor Nominations
YOT Managers will have received an email letter from Alan MacDonald, Assistant Chief Inspector, asking for nominations. It is an opportunity for individuals and YOTs to develop their skills, so please consider nominating someone from your YOT.
Further information is available from [email protected]
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SCYJ Meeting – Charlie Taylor Presentation
Brendan Finegan (Exec Member and Hackney YOT) represents AYM at SCYJ meetings, and was present when Charlie Taylor gave a wide- ranging address to the Standing Committee on Youth Justice at the end of January.
Brendan has provided these notes for AYM members on what Charlie Taylor had to say:
• Charlie is very pleased he has a knowledgeable board who are keen to reshape the YJS. • He hinted that large reductions are yet to come at the YJB, with a change in emphasis over time from process to outcomes. • He highlighted the huge overlap between LAC Services and YOTs, yet the gaps between them are often considerable, with many tensions. • He raised the possibility of developing excellence with YOTs as “teaching schools” using current effective practice. • While not being evangelical about any one model, the YJB will make links with DCSs, Chief Execs and LGA to assist/encourage strong YOT models. He quoted some examples of best practice – Gateshead /Stockport strong YOT built into children’s services, Stockport and their Restorative approaches, and the Surrey model with no ‘real YOT’. • Transitions were highlighted, with the need for a consistent adult in each child’s life, to be an advocate and offer continuity. • He raised the need to improve resettlement, especially the need for accommodation on release and something meaningful to do each day. • Access to the Secure Estate remains problematic of course, with distances presenting challenges. • He said the new Ofsted inspection focus on vulnerable children will be helpful. This will include a focus on adolescents, a consequence of CSE cases in Rotherham and Oxford. • Draft guidance on Secure Schools will be issued by MoJ and DfE in March. Education in a broad sense remains important, not just for GCSEs, but to prepare young people for success through engagement. • Safety and security in the Secure Estate remains a huge concern. • New National Standards are to focus on outcomes not processes, to avoid the tick box approach /culture. • On Lammy & disproportionality, the YJB will work on how to support more challenging kids involved in YJS, especially black boys and those at high risk of exclusions. • He felt that in the long term Local Authorities need to be responsible for custodial costs.
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AYM Conference and AGM – June 6th, 2018
Our next Conference and AGM will be held on 6th June in Rugby.
This year’s conference will have a range of speakers on youth justice themes, which will include:
• Prof Sonia Blandford, CEO and founder of Achievement for All will be presenting on SEND • Ross Little from NAYJ on YJ developments • Dr Tim Bateman of the University of Bedfordshire on his research into Appropriate Adults.
There will be more detail in the coming months, through our website, Bulletins and the May Newsletter. In the meantime, if you want to book a place please email [email protected]
Our ILM Programmes
The ILM 7 Certificate for Senior YOT Managers is in the planning stage and we hope to start the second cohort in May. We have 6 people interested already, so there aren’t too many places left. We work on a first-come-first-served basis, so let us know if this is of interest to you.
Our current Aspiring Future Leaders (AFLs) course is progressing well, with the second module under way, and all participants engaged and enjoying learning.
We continue to hold a list of those interested in the next AFLs course, and already have 4 people waiting. We intend running the next course towards the end of the year, but we will put a course on sooner if we have sufficient numbers before then to break even financially.
Both programmes have been well received, and our partnership with Solace is clearly bringing positive results to colleagues across the sector.
For more details, or to express an interest for yourself or your staff, please contact [email protected]
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Addressing Youth Crime through Sport
Work is continuing with the programme Safer Together Through Sport programme funded by the Police Transformation Fund.
Street Games have been awarded money to work with YOT’s and Sports Development to promote the use of sport for the desistance of crime.
This involves 30 identified PCC areas and relevant practitioners within these areas will be offered the free training on using sport and to help build relationships with local sport providers.
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent YOT’s are in the process of developing the optimum referral toolkit which will be shared with all YOT’s through AYM. The project lasts for 2 years and Street Games have begun to train practitioners.
To find out if your area is one of the PCC’s within the project or to find out more please contact
our AYM lead [email protected]
or you can contact the Street Games lead [email protected]
Youth Custody Service Update
Mark Read will be leaving his post as Executive Director for the Youth Custody Service as from the end of March, to take up a post in the private sector in an unrelated role.
Sara Robinson has again agreed to act as Interim Executive Director of the YCS, having fulfilled the role for 6 months prior to Mark’s appointment.
YCS have informed us that “this change will have no impact on the commitment of all in the YCS to drive improvements and create a service which improves the lives of children whilst in our care and provides them real life chances.”
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Ready for the GDPR?
Phil Sutton gives his view on the new regulations.
This year marks 20 years of the Data Protection Act. In 1998, electronic YOT case management systems were just about visible on the horizon, but even when they arrived all personal data that we put into them was stored on local servers, and entirely in our control.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulations come into force in the UK on 25 May this year, and supersede the 1998 Act, attempting to make data protection legislation fit for a world of big data and cloud- based information systems.
If you already comply fully with existing data protection legislation, you will be a long way down the road towards being GDPR compliant. However, there are some important changes in relation to the way consent to hold personal data is managed (including parental consent in the case of children). There are also some clearer procedures for reporting data breaches.
The Information Commissioner recommends using the introduction of the GDPR as an opportunity to review your current arrangements for collecting and storing personal data and has published a short 12 steps guide https://ico.org.uk/media/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12- steps.pdf
In the wake of the 1998 Act, the Information Commissioner expressed the clear view that, for the purposes of data protection legislation, a YOT is a separate legal entity and a Data Controller within the meaning of the Act. Over the years, as YOTs have changed, there has been some debate over whether this holds true, or whether the local authority can be deemed to fulfil the role.
In the new regulations, ‘controller’ means ‘the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data’.
Personally, if I was still a Head of Service I would spend £35 to register my YOT as a data controller with the ICO https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/register/ rather than risk the consequences of failing to do so. It’s just a personal view, so you’ll need to check it out for yourself.
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YOT Families are Changing
All YOT Managers will soon be contacted by the YJB with their revised family groupings.
The existing families are based on increasingly dated information and have not been revised to take account of YOT changes such as mergers or separations over the years.
The basic principle remains the same as the old families model, but the new model is based on an updated set of factors.
Victim Views Wanted
The MoJ has announced a review into the Victims’ Code and the Parole process.
The Victims’ Commissioner, Baroness Newlove, will report her findings. She wants to hear from all victims, but especially those eligible for the Victim Contact Scheme.
The survey is found at https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/parole-process-review-your-chance-to-be-heard/
Changing Local Government Culture
The New Local Government Network have published a report entitled ‘Culture Shock’.
This argues that transforming the culture of an organisation is more likely to secure improvements in performance than shifts in governance and structures.
It is well argued and worth considering when working within your local authority, as well as within each YOT.
http://www.nlgn.org.uk/public/wp- content/uploads/Culture-Shock.pdf
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Joint Ofsted & CQC Area Inspections of SEND
Since the summer of 2016, inspectors from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have been working their way round all 152 local authorities ‘to inspect the effectiveness of local areas in fulfilling their new duties in the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’.
Last October the inspectors published a report on the first year of inspections https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/65269 4/local_area_SEND_inspections_one__year__on.pdf
The framework for these inspections sets out how Ofsted and CQC jointly inspect the local area’s effectiveness in three main aspects:
• identifying children and young people’s SEND • meeting the needs of children and young people who have SEND • improving outcomes for children and young people who have SEND
Inspectors ‘assess how well local areas are preparing these children and young people to live as independently as possible and, where possible, secure meaningful employment as they move into their adult lives.’
It should therefore come as no surprise that children and young people in the justice system are featuring in many inspections. So far, when the work of YOTs is written about in inspectors’ reports, their comments are usually favourable. 48 reports have so far been published of which half include a reference to SEND services for young offenders.
The full reports are on the Ofsted website https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/local-authority-school-improvement- arrangements-inspections-and-focused-school-inspections
On behalf of AYM, the Department for Education commissioned a review from its specialist contractors, Mott MacDonald, of the extent to which inspection reports made reference to young people in the justice system.
Some examples of the strengths of AYM member YOTs’ work reported in the inspection reports are:
Gloucestershire Children and young people who are involved with youth justice services are offered health screening and home visits. This helps professionals to spot previously unidentified needs, especially concerning communication and emotional health and well-being. Appropriate support is then put into place following effective collaboration between education, social care and health professionals.
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Plymouth There is an increasingly effective youth intervention team that supports young people who become known to the criminal justice system. Through joint working across services they are identifying and supporting young people to avoid criminal activity so that offending rates are in decline in the local area.
Southampton Staff in the Youth Offending service have been trained well by speech and language therapists to accurately identify speech, language and communication needs in young people. As a result, there has been a small increase in referrals into the integrated therapies service from the YOS.
Stoke-on-Trent An effective youth intervention team supports young people who become known to the criminal justice system. The team includes dedicated speech and language therapists and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Evidence from the local area shows that the comprehensive health screening of young people entering the youth justice system for the first time often identifies previously unmet health needs and reduces the need for Tier 3 CAMHS services for the cohort. The focus of the JSNA process on the youth offending service has resulted in some positive outcomes. For example, the early intervention with young people held at police stations is helping to reduce reoffending rates.
Solihull Staff in a range of Solihull schools have had effective training to help to identify children and young people’s special educational needs and/or disabilities. The youth offending service work well with health professionals to identify young people’s additional needs.
Hillingdon There are clear structures in place to support young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities and are known to the youth offending service. Consequently, the number of custodial sentences has reduced for this cohort.
Others member YOTs with positive comments on their support of young offenders with SEND were Bury, Greenwich, East Sussex, Halton, Surrey, Rutland, Bexley, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Oldham and Lancashire
In the three reports where inspectors identified opportunities for improvement in work with young people in the justice system, the issues were primarily around information flow between YOTs and social care, and about the quality of education plans for young people in the secure estate.
It is encouraging to see the work of YOTs being generally held in high regard by inspection teams, and this is a credit to our joint work with local authority and health partners.
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Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17
Ofsted has just published its Annual Report. Clearly this is a wide-ranging report, but youth justice is included.
The report shows that twelve of fourteen SCHs are good or outstanding, while of the three STCs one requires improvement and the others were inadequate. They note that STCs hold more young people, but miss the small size of units in STCs. They found “rising levels of violence’ in STCs. Of the 10 YOIs, 4 were inadequate of requiring improvement, so 6 were good plus. However, they highlight Feltham as unsafe for boys and staff.
The report states that “There is a marked contrast between the inspection outcomes for secure children’s homes and secure training centres. While 86% of secure children’s homes have been judged good or outstanding, all of the secure training centres have been judged less than good.” (p81)
Furthermore, “These institutions can clearly learn from the approach within secure children’s homes. A violent environment and lack of education is not inevitable when a child is an offender.” (p18)
AYM has a long-held position statement that “when young people have to be sent to custody they should be held in small local secure units close to their home.” This seems to fit with Ofsted’s findings.
The report also addresses SEND children, stating that “The number of children who have SEND and were excluded was typically high”, but miss the findings of our SEND project that most on YOT caseloads are undiagnosed, although to be fair some of our work post-dates the period of this report.
https://insidetime.org/download/research_&_reports/annual_reports/Ofsted_Annual_ Report_2016-17.pdf
Conduct Disorder Conference
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health has a one-day conference booked for 19th April in Preston. The day will address conduct disorders, otherwise known as antisocial behaviours, their identification, assessment and treatment.
For further information please see https://www.acamh.org/event/conduct-disorder/
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Government Response to Justice Committee’s “Disclosure of Youth Criminal Records”
The Government have published their response to the wide- ranging, positive and challenging report of the Justice Committee. While their response accepts some points, they disagree with most. Some recommendations are being considered separately, such as those relating to the Lammy Review, the Charlie Taylor Review, and Lord Ramsbotham’s Criminal Records Bill.
AYM’s position statement on spent conviction is “Children and young people moving into adulthood and beyond should not be penalised for having to declare all but the most serious convictions committed as a youth.” http://aym.org.uk/about-us/where- we-stand/ So we see this as a disappointing response by the Government.
The following are some of the points they make in the Response:
❖ “The Government believes the current disclosure arrangements, including rehabilitation periods and the filtering system, to be proportionate and strike the right balance between protecting the public and individuals’ right to privacy.” p7 ❖ “The Government does not agree with the principle of a presumption against disclosure of intelligence information relating to under 18s.” p8 ❖ “The Government agrees that we should ensure children and young people understand their rights with regard to disclosure of criminal records and we accept that guidance for them could be improved.” p10 ❖ “We believe that employers are best placed to consider whether a person’s convictions and cautions … make them unsuitable for a particular job.” p13 ❖ “An individual’s spent convictions or cautions … should not be used as an automatic bar to enrolment on educational programmes. Higher Education Institutions are autonomous, independent organisations and, as such, admissions are a matter for each individual institution.” p14 ❖ “The Government understands entirely the frustrations encountered by would-be travellers with criminal records acquired in childhood. However … we are unable to determine the visa applications procedures and practices of other jurisdictions.” p16 ❖ “It is appropriate that convictions and cautions for sending indecent images continue to be disclosed within the legal framework.” p17 ❖ “The Government considers that the disclosure regime is compatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.” p19
For the full report see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/67792 8/JC-criminal-records-response.pdf
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YJB “National Protocol for Case Responsibility”
In case anyone has missed it, the YJB have published their “National Protocol for Case Responsibility”
This is a welcome publication to assist managers and practitioners in managing cases. It includes a number of helpful charts which clarify expectations.
It includes useful guidance on LAC responsibility, and a useful chart on p28 (see diagram), although guidance on specific responsibilities of home and host YOTs are given as an example, not as definitive practice p30. LAC and Referral Order responsibilities are also explained clearly.
However, there is no clarity about which YOT conducts the learning reviews in CSPPIs, other than all involved should be consulted and if necessary advice sought form the YJB. So, some of the long- standing issues in case responsibility remain subject to local discussion. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/67884 1/National_protocol_for_case_responsibility.pdf
Emerging Good Practice across PCC Areas on Young Adults
T2A and the Revolving Doors Agency have produced a report on how PCCs can commission and support promising work with young adults aged 18-15. This is critical for the effective transition of young people into the adult CJS.
They highlight best practice in South Wales, Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and other areas. These models demonstrate some ways forward for all PCCs to show leadership in reducing crime. http://www.revolving-doors.org.uk/file/2230/download?token=6OH6Xo32
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Homelessness Referrals
At the end of February the Minister for Homelessness, Heather Wheeler MP, announced that prisons, probation services, Jobcentres and NHS Trusts will be among the organisations that have a duty to help those at risk of becoming homeless and refer them to a housing authority.
In new guidance, the government has outlined how councils and public bodies must support the homeless or those at risk of losing their home under their new duties introduced by the Homelessness Reduction Act. The Act places new legal duties on English councils to intervene at an earlier stage to prevent homelessness.
Within the guidance are the following sections relating to YOTs, plus plenty more information in other sections:
23.4 Housing authorities should work closely with Youth Offending Services and children’s social care services to ensure joint and advanced planning around the needs of young people leaving custody. Particular care should be taken to ensure that young people aged 16-17 and care leavers aged 18-24 do not leave custody without an accommodation plan in place. This will also require cooperation between housing authorities and children’s social care services in advance of release.
23.6 The following criminal justice services are subject to the duty to refer, meaning they are required to refer service users in England they consider may be homeless or threatened with homelessness within 56 days to a local housing authority, with the service user’s consent: (a) prisons (public and private); (b) young offender institutions; (c) secure training centres; (d) secure colleges; (e) youth offending teams; and, (f) probation providers (CRCs and NPS). For further guidance on duty to refer see Chapter 4.
For more details see these links: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hospitals-prisons-and-jobcentres-to-refer- people-at-risk-of-homelessness https://www.gov.uk/guidance/homelessness-code-of-guidance-for-local-authorities
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Useful Links
NAO investigation into the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Investigation-into-the- Disclosure-and-Barring-Service.pdf
Poor areas face biggest cuts to children’s services http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42891705
Policing, Health and Social Care consensus statement produced to improve service cooperation and so improve outcomes for communities http://www.apccs.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Policing-Health-and-Social- Care-consensus-2018.pdf
Call for new guidance on Relationships and Sex Education to help young people develop knowledge and relationship skills https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/core/wp- content/uploads/2018/02/Survation_Report.pdf
Review of international survey methodology on CSA and CSE https://www.csacentre.org.uk/research-publications/scale-and-nature-of-child-sexual- abuse-and-exploitation-report/a-review-of-international-survey-methodology-on-child- sexual-abuse-and-child-sexual-exploitation/?platform=hootsuite
HMIP thematic inspection of adult enforcement and recall https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/wp- content/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Enforcement-and-Recall-report.pdf
Inspectors criticise quality of SEND support in Medway STC https://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/2004891/inspectors-criticise-quality-of-send- support-in- medway?utm_content=&utm_campaign=130218_DailyNews&utm_source=Children %20%26%20Young%20People%20Now&utm_medium=adestra_email&utm_term=h ttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cypnow.co.uk%2Fcyp%2Fnews%2F2004891%2Finspectors- criticise-quality-of-send-support-in-medway
Transition period to replace LSCBs will start in May https://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/2004888/transition- period-to-replace-lscbs-to-start-in- may?utm_content=&utm_campaign=130218_DailyNews&utm_source=Children%20 %26%20Young%20People%20Now&utm_medium=adestra_email&utm_term=https %3A%2F%2Fwww.cypnow.co.uk%2Fcyp%2Fnews%2F2004888%2Ftransition- period-to-replace-lscbs-to-start-in-may
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Barnet Council launches charity for LAC. The charity aims to give children the opportunity to do things they normally would not have access to. http://www.itv.com/news/london/2018-02-16/barnet-council-launches-live-unlimited- charity-for-children-in-care/
London Mayor announces £45million to help young people in London at risk of involvement in crime https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/45million-fund-to-help-young- londoners
Remand Costs Invoices
We are aware of one YOT which has been incorrectly invoiced for their remand costs. It’s worth checking the invoice when it arrives to ensure you are paying the correct amount.
YJ Infographic
The annual Youth Justice Statistics report by the YJB was recently published. This was reported in last month’s AYM Newsletter, but the ‘infographic’ which accompanies it is worth an additional mention. It is quite striking and conveys a lot of information visually. It may be useful to share with partners or your YOT Management Board.
It is listed on this link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-annual- statistics-2016-to-2017
Job Vacancy Solihull YOS
Solihull YOS is recruiting to an Assistant Youth Offending Team Manager vacancy. The closing date is 6th March.
If you are interested please see https://www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/29155/assistant-youth-offending-team-manager/
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AssetPlus Rolled Out in HMYOI Werrington
On Tuesday 6th March AssetPlus will ‘go live’ at HMYOI Werrington, the first secure estate site in the country to fully implement it.
Please ensure your staff are aware of this, as there are likely to be issues raised during implementation and deployment.
Any enquiries or concerns should be sent to Wayne George, Head of Casework at Werrington at [email protected]
Through our website http://aym.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/
Via Twitter @AssnYOTmanagers
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