Plymouth Annual Youth Justice Plan 2019-2020

PLYMOUTH

ANNUAL YOUTH JUSTICE PLAN

2019- 2020

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Plymouth Youth Offending Team 2019 - 2020 Plan

Contents

Executive Summary ...... 3 Introduction ...... 4 Summary of Achievements ...... 6 Response to Thematic Inspections ...... 6 2018 – 2019 Youth Justice Plan...... 7 Key Developments ...... 9 Structure and Governance ...... 10 Resources and value for money ...... 13 Partnership arrangements ...... 17 Opportunities and Challenges ...... 18 Joint Youth Justice Plan objectives for Devon, Plymouth and Torbay 2019-2020 ...... 20

Appendix - 1 Plymouth Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board Terms of Reference ...... 27 Appendix - 2 Regional Youth Justice Partnership Board Terms of Reference ...... 30 Appendix – 3 Structures ...... 33 Appendix – 4 Risk Register ...... 35

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Executive Summary Plymouth Youth Offending Team (PYOT) has not undergone any significant structural changes in the last reporting year; however, we are awaiting the outcome of a service wide review that will involve further changes being implemented for the team during this reporting year. PYOT management has undergone some significant changes which has been a challenge for the staff group. The long standing Team Manager left the authority and another practice manager has taken a 1 year sabbatical however, we have been able to retain a high level of consistency for the team through this period of change due to the second Practice Manager within the structure being able to step up into the Team Manager role. Recruitment is underway for the permanent Team Manager replacement.

A key change that has taken place this year is the YOT’s Governance arrangements. The YOT Senior Management; Head of Service and Service Manager report directly to the local Community Safety Partnership (CSP) - Safer Plymouth, through the Safer Board and the Safer Executive and are therefore able to regularly report and brief the CSP of local trends and escalate areas of concern including gaps in service which the partnership can support, as well as offering a good level of support and challenge with regard to Plymouth Youth Justice Services.

This is an exciting time for the YOT as the CSP is currently reviewing all existing structures and governance arrangements to develop a more consistent approach to how the partnership work together with a focus of; • Reducing violence, abuse & exploitation • Reducing re-offending • Early intervention & prevention of harm • Building community resilience & improving lives

The CSP are also supporting the Trauma Informed Plymouth Network to develop Plymouth as a trauma informed City, this will provide a new vision for community safety in which preventing the causes of adversity becomes the cornerstone of how we collectively build a safer future for the children and young people of Plymouth. This vision fits well with Youth Justice Services particularly for the more vulnerable cohort such as those children who are looked after or in need of protection. The CSP will achieve sign off for their new arrangements in September 2019 through the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Following the change in governance arrangements Plymouth YOT now have a quarterly local Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board which reports directly to the Safer Plymouth Executive the Terms of Reference are included within appendix 1.

Plymouth continue to report to the Pan Devon strategic partnership board on a quarterly basis and we continue to work together on many peninsula developments such as training and funding through joint bids. This year we have also worked together to produce joint youth justice plan objectives for the reporting year 2019/2020 which are included in this document.

2019 also brings Plymouth YOT into their 4 year HMIP inspection cycle. Plymouth were last inspected back in June 2015 so preparations are well underway to ensure we are able to showcase 3

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Introduction The Youth Justice Plan sets out the governance arrangements and operation of Plymouth Youth Offending Team (PYOT). This report highlights agreed key developments and key priorities for the coming year, 2019 - 2020

PYOT continue to sit within a wider Targeted Support Service. Targeted Support incorporates; Family Intervention Project (FIP), Family Support, Targeted Youth Work (inc. missing CE and youth homelessness), Early Help, Family Group Conference and Mediation Services.

The YOT remains a statutory multi-agency partnership between Plymouth City Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, National Probation Service and Health (Livewell) Under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, this team is responsible for the delivery and/or commissioning of statutory/non statutory Youth Justice Services.

The YOT and wider targeted support services are committed to providing high quality youth justice services, in partnership with other services such as health, the police and probation.

In June 2019, Plymouth’s youth justice population of 10 – 17 year olds was 52,400 which is 19.9% of the population.

31.1% of children and young people live in poverty

13.8% of children are classed as persistent absentees from school

Current data shows that 357 children and young people are home educated

Caseload diversity – within the 12 months up until 01 April 2019, PYOT worked with 120 children and young people, 86% identified themselves as white British, 23% were female and 28% were either currently or had previously been known to Children’s Social Care Services.

During the reporting year 2018 - 2019, there were 23,729 crimes committed in Plymouth, which is a 4% increase from 2017 - 2018.

The level of offending over the last 2 years has decreased. 2018 – 2019 Plymouth reported 181 children/young people. In the previous reporting year (2017 – 2018) 215 children/young people.

Key Performance Indicators:

Plymouth’s performance has improved; the data below is taken from YJB National Data June 2018. These figures are measured over the period April to December 2018.)

(*Plymouth is placed in a comparison group of similar YOTs by the YJB for comparison purposes. The other YOTs in Plymouth’s group are Wrexham, Torbay, Portsmouth, Southend-on-Sea, Isle of Wight, Newport, Rotherham, Sheffield, Conwy and Denbighshire, Medway)

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Custody:

Plymouth did see a spike in its custody rate this year, largely due to 2 young people receiving consecutive custodial sentences and 2 young people committing serious sexual offences. The figure released by the YJB in June 2019, a rate of 0.38 per 1000 of the 10 to 17 population. Whilst reducing from a high of 0.7, this rate is still higher than the South West rate of 0.12, the YOT comparison group of 0.31 and the national figure of 0.32.

Remand costs during 2017-18 were greater than the remand budget supplied by the MOJ/YCS to cover these costs, with an overspend of £90,080.00

Reoffending:

During the past two years the MOJ and YJB has changed the way in which reoffending is measured, looking at cohorts over 3 months rather than 12 months. This has altered the basis on which the figures are calculated and makes long-term comparisons difficult.

Binary reoffending is expressed as the percentage of offenders who reoffend within 12 months of their intervention coming to an end. Plymouth’s latest binary reoffending rate is 28.6%, which is below the rate for the South West (34.2%), and for the YOT comparison group (40.2%) and the national rate (39.6%).

The frequency reoffending rate is how many offences are committed each, on average, by the young people who reoffend as detailed above. Plymouth’s rate is 3.9 which has reduced over the year from 4.78, however this is higher the South West figure of 3.71, but below the YOT comparison group’s figure of 4.2 and the national figure of 3.91.

We have identified how the majority of our re-offending takes place in the first 3 months of an order and we have increased the frequency and type of intervention during this period, it is pleasing to see the re-offending rates fall in this period.

First Time Entrants (FTE):

Whilst the number of FTEs has fallen from 349 over the year, the current rate of FTE measures 305 young people per 100,000 of the 10 to 17 population. This compares to a rate of 278 across the comparison group of similar YOTs, a rate of 252 across the South West and a national rate of 250.

It is a concern that the first-time entrants figure remains high. Two important actions have been taken to seek to reverse this trend: the setting up of Out of Court Disposal (OOCD) Panels, and a police pilot in two areas to consult more widely before making a decision that results in a young person becoming a first time entrant. Both these actions seek to introduce wider packages of support to young people at risk of offending at an earlier stage, and it is anticipated that these will result in better, more targeted services to young people.

In June 2019, 2,089 children were open to CSC services, with 417 children with a looked after status.

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2018/2019 has seen PYOT launch its early help and prevention work, this has enabled children, young people and their families to receive early help and prevention based programmes with a direct focus on whole family need at the earliest stage of criminal and/or anti-social behaviour being displayed. YOT workers are undertaking whole family early help assessments which is helping us build a rich data set that will in turn help us understand whole family need for this cohort to reduce first time entrants into the criminal justice system.

In May 2019, we began using Viewpoint Surveys. The surveys are being used at the midpoint and end of orders to ascertain feedback from young people and parents to assess how we work. The yearly results from this showed CYP do not understand their plans and find them confusing. As a result, we have adopted a new Intervention Plan template that has been designed by Children and Young People.

Summary of Achievements In the past 12 months PYOT has embarked on a number of new initiatives to address local assessed need such as;

 The creation of a multi-agency Out of Court Disposal (OOCD) Panel which meets weekly.  Agreeing a protocol with PCC commissioned care providers and others to seek to reduce offending by young people placed in care settings.  PYOT have appointed a victim worker who is now contacting all known victims and offering a bespoke programme of support which is led by the victims. This now ensures that the victims’ voice is heard and recognised with all cases.  Viewpoint point surveys to ascertain feedback from children and young people.

Response to Thematic Inspections In the last 12 months Plymouth YOT has reviewed practice in light of the HMIP Thematic Inspections for;

Out of Court Disposals; work in youth offending teams – Plymouth YOT reviewed all policies and procedures relating to this area of work and implemented an out of court disposal scrutiny panel which includes a lay person and a victim liaison officer. Prior to the scrutiny panel taking place an asset plus assessment is completed with the young person and their family and this is presented to the panel to help with decision making.

Referral Orders - do they reach their potential? – Plymouth YOT have met with local magistrates and the magistrates have also reviewed areas of work undertaken by YOT, their partners and panel members. All new referral order assessments are quality assured by management and this year we have appointed a victim worker to ensure the voice of the victim is clearly heard and considered within any referral order contracts.

Work of Youth Offending Teams to Protect the Public – Plymouth YOT are working alongside the Trauma Informed Plymouth Network and will be designing all future interventions with a clear

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL acknowledgement of where trauma would have influenced heavily on the behaviour of children and young people who have entered the youth justice system. Following a review of Asset plus plans and taking feedback from young people, Plymouth YOT have now designed a new intervention plan to ensure young people are engaged and aware of the expectation on them through their plans. This year Plymouth will be introducing risk management review panels to ensure we are effective in our work and responsibilities for protecting the public. We are also reviewing our staff training matrix to include trauma led practice as well as the impact social media is having on young people.

Plymouth YOT have also implemented the new Referral Order Guidance and reviewed our approach to National Standards in light of the release of the New National Standards framework that was released in April 2019.

In August 2018 Plymouth Devon and Torbay undertook a peer review in light of the new HMIP inspection framework. This was a positive learning experience for Plymouth and identified weaknesses around our intervention plans, as a result we have now introduced a new child friendly intervention plan that has been endorsed by the YJB and approved by local magistrates.

2018 – 2019 Youth Justice Plan Plymouth YOT identified 14 key areas within its 2018/2019 plan that needed to be developed, or implemented. The following section describes the areas for improvement identified in the 2018/19 plan and the progress and achievements made throughout the year.

1. The implementation of Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO) review panels offering a multi-agency reviewing platform where intervention plans will be developed in collaboration with young people and their families. Incomplete; This piece of work remains a priority however, in light of the thematic inspection relating to Referral Orders and the new Referral Order Guidance, we prioritised our direct focus on setting up the scrutiny panels for all Referral Orders. This learning will help us with achieving the YRO review panel this coming year.

2. Undertaking case audit reviews focussing on National Standard 8, Planning and Delivering Interventions in the Community. Completed; an action plan has been implemented and we have seen improved performance across this standard especially in areas such as management oversight.

3. Continue to further embed PYOT quality assurance framework. Completed; This activity is now a mature piece of work and continues to be utilised.

4. PYOT procedures to be aligned with the new CapitaONE system. Completed; CapitaONE system is now business as usual.

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5. Implement view point (E survey). All young people will be undertaking this survey at the beginning and end of their orders. Participation with young people will be overseen by the speech and language specialist to make sure that it remains user friendly for all young people entering the service, prevention and statutory. Completed; We have worked closely with the Viewpoint developer and created an application to capture young peoples feedback, this is currently used at the end of every order, following use to date we now want to be able to use this application at the mid-point of an order so that we can be more dynamic in our approach to improve our service offer to young people.

6. Increase education, employment and training opportunities for young people involved in the criminal justice system with a particular focus on children in the care of the local authority. Incomplete; This work is ongoing. PYOT have seen improved performance in this area, however, this is largely due to improvements in case managers recording of education, employment and training activity. We are working with our colleagues from education to improve the offer to children statutory school age as well CSW for our 16+ cohort.

7. Continued development of Early Help and Prevention incorporating a whole family approach. Completed; This is now fully implemented including the use of Plymouth’s Early Help Assessment Tool (EHAT).

8. PYOT to be seen as a priority for updated IT roll out as current case management system requires an upgrade in its operating system to address current performance reporting. Phase 2 of The Way We Work Programme is due to be implemented for the YOT by August 2019.

9. For PYOT to develop and implement a process for out of court disposals with the development of a decision making panel to agree appropriate level of interventions to match the disposal. Completed; This has been in place since December 2018, PYOT have now agreed to follow a Devon and Cornwall wide approach for these panels following an agreement between the local YOTs and the area Police Force so we are all taking a consistent approach to this work.

10. Following recent RJ training PYOT now need to implement changes to practice to ensure they are consistent with restorative justice principles. Completed; PYOT now have a Victim worker in place who is co-ordinating this approach

11. To develop and implement the Enhanced Case Management Model for those young people who meet the criteria collaborating with Family Intervention colleagues to ensure an intensive whole family wrap around approach is available to these families where appropriate. Incomplete; PYOT are able to provide wrap around services to this cohort through our FIP model when appropriate. Plymouth has also developed an active trauma informed partnership network, with a vision for Plymouth to become a Trauma Informed City. PYOT are committed to the core values and standards and are working with the network to ensure a trauma informed approach is taken to our enhanced case management model further work and training is planned for this area to be completely embedded in our practice so this will be a continued priority within this year’s plan.

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12. Review policy and procedures alongside children social care colleagues to ensure those young people engaging in sexually harmful behaviours are assessed and receiving appropriate support via a timely and effective Aim2 assessment. Incomplete; This work remains a priority for PYOT however due to staff and management changes we now need to get staff trained and/or receive a refresher to incorporate the updated AIM3 alongside a review of policy and procedures.

13. Review pathways for criminal justice support and prioritise prevention opportunities for those young people who are in the care of the local authority. Completed; This is now fully implemented

14. To implement learning from the inspection Peer Review that was held between Plymouth Torbay and Devon. Completed

Key Developments  This year PYOT has further developed PYOT management oversight and quality assurance process and this process has led to improved consistency of practice. Performance this year has improved greatly in areas such as timeliness of assessments, identification of unsigned intervention plans and management oversight. Supervision of staff now consistently follows a set quality assurance focus and we can ensure that staff remain focussed on the young person’s needs throughout their interventions

 Out of court disposal scrutiny panels are now well established within the YOT process. Children and young people are now being appropriately dealt with ensuring that the right intervention is in place at the right time. It is hoped this, as well as a police pilot in two areas to consult more widely before making a decision that results in a young person becoming a first time entrant, will reduce the rate of first time entrants. Plymouth will now be using the learning from these panels to assist with implementation of our YRO scrutiny panels.

 Sexually harmful behaviour work/AIM – following a review of staff training, we have identified the need to update YOT staff to AIM3. As a result, we are coordinating this training regionally to be undertaken in Autumn 2019 as within Children Services YOT are seen as the lead when this level of assessment needs to be undertaken with children and young people.

 PYOT victim worker is continuing to enhance the victim service offer. Plymouth are able to offer a bespoke programme of support which is led by the victims this ensures that the victims voice is heard and recognised within all cases.

 All YOT Policy and procedures have been reviewed and updated as part of our inspection preparations.

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 PYOT have now developed and implemented view point survey which is offered to young people at the mid-point and end of statutory interventions. The tool has been endorsed by speech and language professionals to ensure that we are offering all young people who access youth justice services an opportunity to have their say. All feedback received can then help us improve our engagement and offer to children and young people.

 PYOT prevention programme continues to develop and all practitioners now undertake Early Help whole family assessments with those families who have been referred through early help and targeted services such as Schools and Health professionals. Prevention programmes include areas such as; healthy relationships, sexting, consent and internet safety, anti-social behaviour, emotional regulation, behaviour management and victim awareness. The programmes are undertaken on a one to one basis or delivered in groups. We are currently developing pathways for more structured parental engagement as this area is currently weak for the team and needs to be addressed with some urgency especially for those young people who are at high risk of escalating into the CJS.

Structure and Governance In Plymouth, the local Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board (YJPDB) is the multi-agency partnership where agencies can oversee the future development of Plymouth Youth Justice Services and monitor the delivery of Youth Justice and Prevention services within Plymouth. The YJPDB reports directly to the Community Safety Partnership (Safer Plymouth) and sits within their governance structure (see appendix 3). Any issues that are highlighted as a risk to delivery would be escalated to the Safer Board for consideration and action where necessary.

Plymouth YJPDB meets quarterly and looks at local youth justice and prevention issues; this includes staffing, budgets, delivery models, new local initiatives and signing off the annual Youth Justice Plan. In addition, there is a Youth Justice Pan Devon Strategic Partnership Board that meets quarterly and includes Plymouth, Devon and Torbay local authorities. This board looks at topics such as; sharing effective practice and investigating joint funding opportunities. It ensures that comparing, challenging and learning can take place across the three YOT’s and also supports the YOT’s in overcoming barriers to effective multi agency working/partners contribution

A core focus within both agendas shall be placed on:

 Performance and Quality Assurance  Planning, Delivery and Outcomes  Resources  Service Development

At this stage, it is not proposed to develop a single youth justice plan or performance report to

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The relationship between the two boards is summarised below:

PAN DEVON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BOARD

1. Compare, Challenge and Learn from Practice & Performance to advise collective activity 2. Share Effective Practice 3. Investigate best value “joint funding” opportunities 4. Investigate consistent practices to reduce variance and improve statutory partners performance/engagement across the 3 LA’s 5. Attendance of senior partners who have a footprint wider than the individual YJ Management Boards 6. Horizon scan and recommend future relationships and structures for YJ Delivery in the three LA’s 7. Core Attendance of the 3 Local YJ Management Board Chairs – the 3 YJ Strategic Managers – Senior Police Representative – Senior PCC Representative – Senior NPS Representative – Senior Health Representative Support Staff – Data Manager – Minute taker – YJB (Advice and Oversight Role)

DEVON YOS MANAGEMENT BOARD COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP BOARD (CSP) BOARD (CSP) PLYMOUTH YOS MANAGEMENT TORBAY YOS MANAGEMENT BOARD BOARD Chair (attends Pan Devon also) Chair (attends Pan Devon and CSP) Chair (attends Pan Devon & CSP) YOS Manager YOS Manager YOS Manager Finance Officer Finance Officer Finance Officer Data/Performance Manager Role Data/Performance Manager Role Data/Performance Manager Role

Local Senior Staff in Local Senior Staff in Local Senior Staff in Police/Health/Probation/Education/Child Police/Health/Probation/Education/Child Police/Health/Probation/Education/Child ren Services/Community ren Services/Community ren Services/Community Safety/Courts/Housing/Elected Member Safety/Courts/Housing/Elected Member Safety/Courts/Housing/Elected Member (as appropriate) (as appropriate) (as appropriate)

Core Activity Core Activity Core Activity 1. Address Local Performance 1. Address Local Performance 1. Address Local Performance Risks and Issues Risks and Issues Risks and Issues 2. Comply with YJB 2. Comply with YJB 2. Comply with YJB Conditions, NS and HMIP Conditions, NS and HMIP Conditions, NS and HMIP Inspection Requirements Inspection Requirements Inspection Requirements 3. Monitor YOS 3. Monitor YOS 3. Monitor YOS Management/Staff Operations Management/Staff Operations Management/Staff Operations 4. Enhance partnership working 4. Enhance partnership working 4. Enhance partnership working at the LA level with a range of at the LA level with a range of at the LA level with a range of non-statutory local partners non-statutory local partners non-statutory local partners 5. Oversee the local prevention 5. Oversee the local prevention 5. Oversee the local prevention diversion agenda (Child First) diversion agenda (Child First) diversion agenda (Child First) 6. Fiscal Management & Agree 6. Fiscal Management & Agree 6. Fiscal Management & Agree Budgets/Resources Budgets Budgets/Resources 7. YJ Plan Development/Sign 7. YJ Plan Development/Sign 7. YJ Plan Development/Sign off off off 8. Monitor Serious Incident 8. Monitor Serious Incident 8. Monitor Serious Incident learning learning learning

(1) Plymouth & Torbay LA Joint Working Developments are advising governance arrangements – Some crossovers and efficiencies of children’s services and YOS services may merge some responsibilities going forward

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Membership

The core membership of the Plymouth Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board comprises the agencies identified within the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

 The Local Authority (including local Social Care and Education functions)  Health  Police  The Probation Service

Agency representatives shall be sufficiently senior in order to contribute to board discussions, subject to their own governance and decision-making arrangements on substantive matters.

Please see Appendix 1 for Terms of Reference for the Plymouth Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board.

Please see Appendix 2 for Terms of Reference for the Pan Devon Strategic Partnership Board.

Please refer to Appendix 3 for Operational Leadership and structures.

Plymouth YOT is located within Plymouth’s Children, Young People and Families Service (CYPF). This reflects the significance of the YOT work across the spectrum of need as within this service area sits Early Help, targeted and prevention services as well as children’s safeguarding and social work services such as child in need, child protection and LAC.

Early Help/ Troubled Families; Plymouth have combined the Troubled Families agenda together with Plymouth’s Early Help arrangements. Early Help has robust governance arrangements and a strategic Governance Board that meets regularly to drive this partnership agenda forward the YOT Service Manager and Head of Service are key members of this board

Safeguarding: Through supervision and management oversight of casework, safeguarding issues are identified and YOT staff attend meetings for children in need of help and protection as part of multi-agency working arrangements. They also attend child protection and core group meetings on all open cases. In response to the Short Quality Screening Inspection in July 2015, the YOT moved to develop a system of more robust supervision and quality assurance, both of which were developed with particular emphasis on the wider areas of vulnerability. The YOT Service Manager is responsible for safeguarding and for escalations within the service, and chairs multi-agency meetings for those assessed as having high or very high vulnerability. YOT has an escalation policy in place with Children’s Social Care Services, and staff complete relevant safeguarding training in line with the requirements of Plymouth Safeguarding Children’s Board (PCSB). YOT staff provide information to the MASH/safeguarding hub on a daily basis, regularly complete safeguarding referrals. In addition, YOT management form part of the membership at the local Missing and Child Exploitation meetings. The YOT are also part of all multi-agency safeguarding

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Public Protection: Public Protection and Risk of Serious Harm are identified through assessment, supervision and quality assurance, which are all being strengthened in the current year. The YOT has a comprehensive risk management policy and relevant cases are reviewed and monitored through Risk Management Panels. These panels also review cases of high vulnerability to ensure safeguarding is also monitored at a multi-agency level. Relevant cases are referred to MAPPA and the YOT works closely with partners in the police to review intelligence and ensure measures are in place to protect the public, including named and vulnerable victims, through controls such as licence conditions and relevant elements of orders.

Resources and value for money The YOT 2018/19 final out-turn position resulted in an overall surplus of (£177,953). This included a balance of (£148,681) from the 17/18 reserves, less an in year withdrawal of £67,500 = (£81,181). There were additional savings of (£96,772) during 18/19 equating to a total reserve of (£177,953).

The table overleaf shows a breakdown of the final out-turn position.

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COST CATEGORIES £

Expenditure (based on CIPFA Standard Groups)

Employees 726,132

Premises 0

Transport 18,599

Supplies & Services 10,410

Third Party Payments 2,878

Other Delivery Costs 0

757,988

YOT Funding

Youth Justice Board Grant (358,198)

Plymouth City Council (372,797)

Police and Crime Commissioner (85,119)

Probation (5,000)

Health (33,646)

Other Income 0

TOTAL YOT Funding (854,760)

Total underspend (96,772)

Balance of 16/17 cumulative reserves (81,181)

SURPLUS (Balance to YOT Reserves) (177,953)

Partnership Reserve

Funder April 2018 £'000 The YOT Reserve at the end LA 112 Police and Crime 43 of 2018-19 Commissioner

Probation 7 Health 16 TOTAL 178

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As at 31/3/2019 the total YOT reserves were (£148,681) which was carried forward into 2018-19. An in year PCC withdrawal of £67,500 was agreed to help with pressure = (£81,181). A surplus of (£96,772) was achieved during 2018-19 resulting in a cumulative YOT reserve of (£177,953).

The YOT Budget 2019/20

Areas of the Public Sector continue to face financial challenges in 2019 and beyond and this is reflected in the resources available to the YOT. Management action has already taken place to ensure that the YOT can contain its spending plan within the forecast resources available for 2019- 20. Youth Justice Board The YJB Grant has remained at the same level at £358K in 2019/20 (compared to £358K in 2018/19). This consists of £339K main grant and £19K Junior Attendance Centre Grant.

Police Crime Commissioners (PCC) The Police Crime Commissioner has confirmed their contribution of £85,120 for 2019-20. This has remained at the same level as the 2018-19 contribution.

Probation The 2019-20 level of funding is projected to be £5,000, as per the 2018-19 level of funding.

Health The 2019-20 level of funding is expected to remain at £33,646.

Plymouth City Council The 2019-20 level of funding is the same as per previous years at £372,797.

Table 3 – 2019/20 Forecast Table 4 – 2019/20 Funding

Expenditure Latest Forecast 19/20 Confirmed 2019-20 Funding £’000s

Employees 775,570 Youth Justice Board 356,772

Premises 0 Police Crime Commissioner 85,120

Transport 19,950 Plymouth City Council 372,797

Supplies & Services 5,833 Probation 5,000

Third Party Payments 1,000 Health 33,646

Other Delivery Costs 50,982 Total Funding 853,335

Total Expenditure 853,335

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The Plymouth YOT is committed to the following principles

 maintaining appropriate levels of front line delivery of both preventative and core statutory services to young people and partners  ensuring the YOT remains in a position to improve practice and outcomes for young people and that they are involved in the developments of the service.  ensuring young people are safeguarded and any risk is well managed  ensuring value for money

These principles underpin all of our budgetary management.

The YOT Budget The YOT budget comprises partnership funding, YJB funding and specific grant funding. The Management Board reviews the budget allocation annually and all partners agree funding contributions for the following year. The budget for 2019-20 is £853,335 (subject to no reductions in contributions from Partners).

90.9% of the YOT budget is spent on staffing costs.

2019-20 Forecast expenditure breakdown

CONTRIBUTION REDUCTION IN REDUCTION IN THE TO YOUTH REDUCTION IN FIRST YOUTH RE - USE OF YOUTH DRUGS TOTAL TIME ENTRANTS OFFENDING CUSTODY ALCOHOL PREVENTION

% split of forecast 60% 15% 20% 5% 100% expenditure

£ £ £ £ £

Employees 465,342 116,336 155,114 38,779 775,570

Premises 0 0 0 0 0 Transport 11,970 2,993 3,990 998 19,950

Supplies & 3,500 875 1,167 292 5,833 Services

Third Party 600 150 200 50 1,000 Payments

Other Delivery 30,589 7,647 10,196 2,549 Costs 50,982 0 0 0 0 Total 19/20 Forecast 512,001 128,000 170,667 42,667 853,335 Expenditure

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Partnership arrangements Objective: Effective partnership arrangements are in place between YOT statutory partners, who have a stake in delivering local youth justice services, and wider partnerships to generate effective outcomes for children and young people who offend, or are at risk of offending.

The YOT Senior Management; Head of Service and Service Manager report directly to the local Community Safety Partnership (CSP) - Safer Plymouth, through the Safer Board and the Safer Executive. The CSP is currently reviewing all existing structures and governance arrangements to develop a more consistent approach to how the partnership work together with a focus of;

• Reducing violence, abuse & exploitation • Reducing re-offending • Early intervention & prevention of harm • Building community resilience & improving lives

PYOT sits within Targeted Support Services, Children, Young People and Families, alongside Family Support, Targeted Youth and Family Support, Family Intervention Project (FIP), Family Group Conferencing and Mediation, a Duty Team and The Plymouth Children’s Gateway (front door). The proximity of these teams has provided opportunities for closer collaboration and coordination of early help and prevention for children and young people, with a particular focus on taking a whole family approach to assessing need and formulating plans.

External partners include  Criminal Justice (Police, Police & Crime Commissioner, Probation, Courts);  Community Safety (Health, Fire Service and ASB Team);  Children's Services (Targeted Support Service, Education & Children's Social Care);  Housing Services;  Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB);  Plymouth Safeguarding Adults Board (Via NPS, Police and LA Members); and  Local MAPPA Board and delivery group.

The Police, Probation, Education, SHARP (Substance Misuse Service), CSW, Health-Livewell and Youth Justice Board offer either financial support and/or co-location of key specialist staff within PYOT.

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 Plymouth YOT staff have carried out work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children during the past 12 months. This work is designed to assist these young people to settle, to broaden their understanding of the law and to lower the risk of offending behaviour.

 The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 placed a duty on YOTs and key partners to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and extremism. Plymouth YOT is represented on appropriate forums regarding these issues, and most staff have undertaken ‘prevent’ awareness training. A Practice Manager is responsible for providing information regarding young people known to the YOT whose names are raised, through the Channel system, as potentially at risk of being drawn into extremist activities. The YOT has worked with a small number of cases through this process, both where the YOT has referred the young person into the Channel system and where the YOT has been asked to assist by other agencies.

 We currently have 34 trained Appropriate Adult Volunteers and offer this service, Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am to 5pm. Cover outside of these hours is provided by Children Social Care Out of Hours Team.

 Two Child Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) workers are co-located within Plymouth Youth Offending Team providing specialist support to young people exhibiting emotional wellbeing and mental health issues. The need for the support is identified by PYOT case holders, via the Mental Health screening tool within the Asset Assessment. By working together emotional wellbeing and mental health support can be provided in a timely and effective way.

 Speech and Language Therapist (SALT). All young people coming into the service are now screened for speech and language issues and if appropriate young people are then referred on to the therapist for a full assessment. Following assessment a Speech and Language Report is produced and direct work undertaken by the therapist or strategies are identified for the family and young person to use.

 PYOT staff and a SHARP (substance misuse) worker offers targeted support work for young people, either on court orders or as a preventative measure, by engaging in a constructive leisure activity

Opportunities and Challenges Plymouth YOT is in the process of a wider service redesign which involves the whole of Targeted Services, plans are due to be implemented in the autumn.

Prevention work undertaken by the YOT is now clearly sited within the wider Early Help service, meaning that prevention of offending is rightly a target for wider networks of professionals within

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL the Early Help system. Plymouth YOT has become more embedded within wider children’s services allowing closer working relationships with Children’s Social Care and Accommodation.

Plymouth YOT uses the Capita database to record cases. This is an improvement on our previous system in terms of speed and reliability. AssetPlus case assessment tool is used and through supervision, QA and audits, the quality of AssetPlus recording is improving. This year, the staff were trained to use the Early Help Assessment Tool, we are using this assessment for prevention cases.

New challenges: New standards for children in the youth justice system were introduced in April 2019 and Plymouth YOT, alongside other YOTs, will have to benchmark themselves against these standards during the period from September 2019 to March 2020, before producing an action plan to address any gaps in adherence that were revealed.

Like many other similar Local Authorities, Plymouth has had to deal with an increased number of cases of young people being exploited through so-called ‘County Lines’ processes. Initially, this involved young people, largely from major cities, being arrested in possession of large amounts of drugs. We are gaining intelligence that more Plymouth young people are now being drawn into County Line activities. Multi Agency protocols within the city are being utilised to ensure that these young people are protected. Protocols involve referrals to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and the National Referral Mechanism to ensure that the safety of these young people is at the forefront of any discussions and plans.

The Junior Attendance Centre offers interventions to young people through Court Orders and sentencing plans as well as young people who have been identified through our Prevention pathway. We offer centre-based programmes for groups of young people to challenge their offending behaviour and to offer training to increase their skills. We have had an ongoing issue with attendance, following feedback from young people, we currently run the attendance centre on a Wednesday afternoon instead of Saturday mornings as a trial to see if compliance improves.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL Joint Youth Justice Plan objectives for Devon, Plymouth and Torbay 2019-2020

Target Area Outcome Actions Success Criteria Target date

National Key Reduce the number of Devon: OOCD panels have met weekly since Overall: FTE figures to reduce to Ongoing. Performance FTEs (First-time December 2018. These panels have already below the South West rate Indicators entrants) to the criminal reduced FTE numbers (not reflected in the (measured as FTE per 100,000 young (KPIs) justice system figures yet, as they are from September 2018) people). June 2019. and are expected to continue to do so. Plymouth: Multi agency OOCD panels have Devon current rate 256, South West rate 236 met weekly since February 2019, too early to assess the impact on FTE at present. Plymouth current rate 305, South Torbay: Desistance work with both prevention West rate 236 and post-court cases. Ongoing work with specialist providers, the local college and Torbay current rate 366, South West partners to reduce the numbers of young rate 236 June 2019. people receiving a substantive outcome. Note: Devon and Cornwall Police will Obtain a data-sharing with the Ministry of provide local FTE data from June 2019 Justice (MoJ) to better understand the which will enable more local scrutiny discrepancy in reported figures. (Currently all of these figures. requests are on hold, but this remains a

priority.) Across all three areas: Police pilot which will involve individual officers having to take advice from a youth specialist within the police before acting to make a young person a FTE will commence in June 2019.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL National Key Reduce both measures Overall: Binary re-offending to reduce All: These figures date to March 2017 and are Performance of to below the average in the South therefore over 2 years old. More up-to-date June 2019 Indicators re-offending: binary West or to remain below this figure (KPIs) local data will be obtained through the (the proportion that re- LiveTracker tool and through local police, to Devon: current figure is 37.8% offend) and frequency better analyse trends and take necessary (the number of offences action. target is 34.1% committed by each re-

offender). All three areas are undertaking trauma Plymouth current figure is 27.6%

recovery model training in September- target is 34.1% October 2019, with the intention of being able to deliver an enhanced case management approach to the most risky and challenging Ongoing – young people. Torbay current figure is 31.0% monthly dip samples in Devon: Ensure that there is minimum delay in target is 34.1% place. commencing interventions.

Ensure that young people with highest YOGRs Frequency re-offending to reduce to score (highest risk of reoffending) are given below the South West average or to the most impactful programmes of work. remain below this figure

Devon: current figure is 5.00

target is 3.90

Plymouth current figure is 4.29

target is 3.90

Torbay current figure is 2.96

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National Key Continue to achieve low Devon: Robust alternative to custody Custodial rate to remain below the Performance level of young people proposals will be presented to court in cases South West rate, measured as a Indicators sentenced to custody. where custody is likely. proportion of every 1,000 young (KPIs) people in the 10-17 population.

Devon: current figure is 0.05 Close working relationships to continue with target is 0.11 Ongoing local Social Services departments to ensure Plymouth current figure is 0.38 supportive placements are provided for young target is 0.11 people. Being remanded to custody can make it more Torbay current figure is 0.18 Ongoing Ongoing likely that a custodial sentence is imposed target is 0.11

subsequently. Therefore, work will be carried out to ensure that remand placements are kept to a minimum. Appropriate placements will play a part in reducing demand for custodial sentences. Clear working practices will be

established with Social Care regarding

provision of suitable accommodation for those in danger of/leaving custody.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL All remands to custody will be examined in supervision, to check whether alternative placements in the

community would suffice.

In Plymouth, whilst above the South West average, the figure is falling and was the result of a small number of young people persistently reoffending and not complying as well as two young people who, whilst LAC, were not known to the YOT when they committed their offences Torbay: Current processes and practices regarding accommodation for those leaving custody to be reviewed by the Management Board and Children's Services Senior Leadership Team. Plymouth: implement YRO multi agency December review panels where intervention plans will be 2019 developed in collaboration with children, young people and their families – with an aim to improve compliance reduce risk of custody

Reduce Offending by Looked New protocol covering all three areas ‘Bounceback’ offending by After Children is launched in June 2019: Data to show reduction in offending service Looked After reduced. by Looked After Children. commenced Children in “A protocol covering Devon, Plymouth and January 2019 Devon Torbay to reduce criminalisation of Children and Young People in Care”

Devon: ‘Bounceback’ project targeting offending by children in care commenced

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Torbay & Plymouth: Task and Finish Group to be created to implement recommendations from the protocol and be sighted by the local Management Board. October 2019

Plymouth: Increase education, employment and training opportunities for young people in Ongoing from 2018/2019 the CJS with a particular focus on LAC

Self- Self-assessment carried Devon: Self-assessment to be carried out by a Self-assessment successfully produced Self- assessment out in each area against group of Team Managers in Devon YOS and plan to address any gaps in assessment to against new new standards for adherence created. Self- assessment take place Plymouth: Self-assessment to be carried out between standards for children 2019 baseline, across all three areas to be moderated by the YOT Managers between September September children 2019 the results of this will 2019 and December 2019. to a comparable standard to ensure 2019 and baseline form the basis of the consistency. March 2020 Youth Justice Plan Torbay: Self-assessment to be carried out by a 2020/21. group of managers in Torbay YOT.

Feedback Feedback gathered from Devon: Young person’s feedback form at the Clear evidence that the services are Ongoing gathered from service users to be used end of orders plus parental feedback through responding to feedback from young service users to improve services to parenting workers. AssetPlus closing surveys people and parents and using this (young them for both young people and parents. information to improve services people, offered Plymouth YOT have been working with parents) Viewpoint and developed an app to gain feedback from Young People on their experiences with us. Feedback is taken at the midpoint and end of an order and has already identified young people’s confusion with their intervention plans.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL Torbay: Ongoing implementation of feedback across all areas of the service to improve practice and provision. (Parents/carers, victims, courts, young people.)

Create Put strategy in place to Track BAME through OOCD panel process to In year ending March 2018 Devon had disproportion counteract work towards fair and balanced outcomes a 5% over representation of BAME ality strategy disproportionality in young people. The target is to reduce criminal justice this to at least 3%. outcomes Similarly, Plymouth had an over- representation of BAME young people of 5% and the target is to reduce this to 3%.

No issue of disproportionality was identified in Torbay.

Review HSB Ensure those young Plymouth: staff to be trained in AIM3 Clear evidence of a timely assessment September policy and people engaging in HSB and response to children and young 2019 procedures are assessed and Review HSB/ safeguarding policy and people displaying HSB/ or offending alongside CSC receiving appropriate procedures alongside CSC colleagues December colleagues support and 2019 interventions via a timely AIM 3 assessment

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Appendix - 1 Plymouth Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board Terms of Reference

Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board (April 2019)

Terms of Reference

Background Over recent years there has been increasing financial constraints upon public services that has led local partners to explore new ways of working. A Regional Joint Board made up of Plymouth, Torbay and Devon Local Authorities, Police, Health, Probation and other non - statutory partners has been created to provide youth justice governance and consistency across these areas.

Where appropriate the three areas will work to collaborate to deliver services where there is a clear need to do so, especially around the YOT’s statutory function and with developing and future proofing agreed youth justice policy and strategy for the wider area

However each Local Authority area is funded separately with their own objectives and responsibility for submission of their statutory youth justice plan which includes service requirements to be delivered to meet local needs.

Governance In Plymouth, our Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board (YJPDB) is the multi-agency partnership where agencies can oversee the future development of Plymouth Youth Justice Services and the delivery of Youth Justice Early Help and Prevention within Plymouth. The YJPDG will report directly to the Community Safety Partnership (Safer Plymouth) and sit within their governance structure (see appendix 3).

The Plymouth Youth Offending Team (YOT) is a specialist multi-agency team within Children Young People and Families Service Plymouth City Council. The YOT is managed by a Team Manager reporting to Service Manager.

The principle aim of the YOT is set out in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998: o To prevent offending by children and young persons o In addition to any duty to which they are subject, it shall be the duty of all persons and bodies carrying out functions in relation to the youth justice system to have regard to that aim.

The principle duty under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998: o To co-ordinate the provision of youth justice services for all those in the local authority’s area who need them To carry out such functions as are assigned to the team or teams in the youth justice plan formulated by the authority The YJPDB member’s responsibilities are:

o Having oversight of the Youth Justice Budget which is in place to deliver the Youth Justice Plan in Plymouth. The CSP provides the overall financial governance for the budget

o Securing the appropriate financial, estates, personnel, strategic planning and data management in accordance with national and local legislative and policies/procedures such as; National Standards

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL o Ensuring that the work of the Youth Offending Team and Youth Justice Services are integrated into relevant local Plymouth partnerships and there are clear lines of communication with the Plymouth CSP

o Contributing to the Youth Justice Plan for recommendation to partner agencies prior to final submission to the Youth Justice Board.

o Ensuring that core staffing is retained from the statutory agencies, and systems are in place to maintain continuous staff secondment.

o Ensuring that the work and development of the Youth Offending Team is given a high profile within all partner agencies and within Plymouth, through effective marketing to improve public confidence in the Youth Justice System.

The Plymouth Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board will receive the following reports

1) Financial report (detailing budgets and current and projected spending) 2) Key Performance Indicators (to cover KPIs reported by the Youth Justice Board) 3) Other local authority measures agreed through the Plymouth CSP and areas of interest agreed with the Pan Devon Board 4) Any additional reports requested by local partners to improve practice 5) Take reports on community safeguarding, public protection incidents in the local area 6) Coordinate and report on the annual National Standards Self-Assessment process

Membership Membership is to be made up of senior operational managers who are able to make decisions without having to refer back or up within their organisation. Core membership of the Youth Justice Prevention and Delivery Board should be made up of direct funding partners, such as: • Plymouth City Council – children’s services • Plymouth City Council - Education • Health (Livewell) • Police • The Probation Service

The delivery group may also appoint or request other agencies or services that support young people and families, such as voluntary organisations or interest groups, to attend on an advisory basis, or to contribute to the business and/or decision making of the group.

Records of Meetings Records of meetings will be kept and circulated to YJPDB members/chair of the CSP

Frequency of Meetings The JYPDB will meet a minimum of four times a year on a quarterly basis in July, October, January and April to align with the local performance reporting cycle to YJB and following the Regional YOT Board Meeting.

Quorate The meeting will be considered quorate with at least 3 of the 4 core funding partners being in attendance.

Chairing The Youth Justice and Prevention Delivery Board will be chaired by CYPF Head of Service. A Deputy Chair will be identified by the delivery group to cover the Chair’s functions as and when required.  2019/20 Deputy Chair was agreed as Inspector Simon Hardwick (Devon and Cornwall Police)

Review The YJPDB Terms of Reference will be subject to an annual review following inception of the group.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL Appendix - 2 Regional Youth Justice Partnership Board Terms of Reference

Joint Youth Offending Service Management Board: Devon, Plymouth and Torbay Terms of Reference

Background Over recent years the continuing and significant reductions in Central Government funding have required local authorities and their partners to explore new ways of working in order to deliver efficiencies whilst seeking to sustain/improve services. The ongoing process of structural reform has created further challenges, particularly for strategic partners working across a number of local authority areas.

Youth Justice is particularly challenging in the latter regard with the requirements placed on Police, Probation and Health for statutory participation within both delivery and governance across multiple local authority areas.

The joint board has been proposed as a mechanism through which local agencies can continue to play an active role within youth justice governance whilst seeking to provide a greater degree of coordination of effort across a wider geographical area. The impetus to create a joint board is further informed by similar patterns of offending behaviour across the participating local authority areas.

It should be noted however that each participating authority retains responsibility for local youth justice delivery and outcomes, and their youth justice plan, including approval of the latter through their respective decision making processes. It is not proposed to move towards pooling of budgets although the opportunities to share resources and achieve efficiencies will form a key part of the Board's work.

Purpose The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 brings together a range of local agencies within Youth Offending Teams with the following aims:

It shall be the principal aim of the youth justice system to prevent offending by children and young persons.

In addition to any duty to which they are subject, it shall be the duty of all persons and bodies carrying out functions in relations to the youth justice system to have regard to that aim.

The principal duties of the Youth Offending Service are set out in Sec 39 (17) of the Act as follows:

• To coordinate the provision of youth justice services for all those in the local authority's area who need them: and

• To carry out such functions are assigned to the team or teams in the youth justice plan formulated by the authority.

The joint board has been established to being together senior representatives from each local authority

(and their YOS Managers) along with statutory partners, in order to provide for efficient oversight and scrutiny of YOT performance at an individual local authority and area wide level, whilst also seeking opportunities to address common areas of concern, patterns of offending behaviour and the development of shared resources.

Membership The core membership of the Joint Board will comprise of the agencies identified within the Crime and Disorder Act 1998:

 The Local Authority (including local Social Care and Education functions)  Health  Police  The Probation Service

In light of the extensive programme of structural and legislative reform that has taken place since the 1998 Act, the initial membership of the joint board is proposed as follows:

 Chair- Torbay Director of Children's Services  Devon County Council DCS (or their representative)  Plymouth City Council DCS (or their representative)  YOT Manager (I each LA)  National Probation Service  Community Rehabilitation Company  Devon and Cornwall Police  Clinical Commissioning Group  Careers South West  Youth Justice Board  Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioners Office

Agency representatives shall be sufficiently senior in order to contribute to board discussions, subject to their own governance and decision making arrangements on substantive matters.

The joint board still meet on a quarterly basis in July, October, January and April in order to align with local performance reporting cycle.

The meeting shall be considered quorate if at least two out of the 3 local authority senior representatives and three out of five core partners are in attendance.

All meetings shall be minuted and papers will be circulated at least 5 working days prior to each meeting. Items for each agenda shall be agreed by the chair in consultation with DCS colleagues and statutory partners. Torbay Council YOS will provide administrative support to the Board.

A core focus within agendas shall be placed on:

 Performance and Quality Assurance  Planning, Delivery and Outcomes  Resources  Service Development

At this stage, it is not proposed to develop a single youth justice plan or report on performance at a tri-borough rather than local authority boundary and participating local authorities remain

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL accountability for both. However, this may develop as the work of the joint board matures and subject to further approval.

Functions The core functions of the joint board will be to:  Provide effective oversight and scrutiny of performance against key indication across each LA, with a particular focus on:

o New entrants to criminal justice o Reoffending o Use of custody o Health, education, employment project outcomes

 Review progress against each local justice plan, checking any area of underperformance and identify areas for collaborative working/joint focus.  To oversee the development of local justice plans prior to joint youth board and local approval, with the aim of moving to a single, multi-area youth justice plan at the earliest opportunity.  To ensure resources (financial, personnel, infrastructure, etc.) are sufficient to deliver the requirements of local youth justice plans, monitoring expenditure and seeking to identify efficiencies whenever practicable.  To monitor compliance with Youth Justice Board national minimum standards.  To ensure local Youth Justice work informs and is, in turn, informed by wider multi agency working with children and families, with a particular focus of child safeguarding.  To communicate the work of the youth justice system to the public, partner and stakeholders with particular regard to the victim's voice and the need to promote public confidence.

Appendix – 3 Structures

Community Safety Partnership (CSP)

Plymouth City Council Structures

Targeted structure

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Plymouth Youth Offending Team Structure

Appendix – 4 Risk Register Risks to the delivery of this plan and to the performance of the YOT against statutory indicators is given below and scored against the following scale

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Initial Residual

Description of risk A (1-5) B (1-5) C (A+B) Mitigation of risk D (1-5) E (1-5) F (D+E)

Likelihood Impact Score Likelihood Impact Score

KPI one – First Time Entrants. 3 4 7 FTE figures have risen recently but two powerful actions are 2 2 4 in place to mitigate this, first the introduction of multi- FTE figure rises and more young agency OOCD panels plus a pilot of a scheme whereby people enter the formal criminal police have to consult a youth specialist before making a justice system. young person a FTE. These plus local police monitoring FTE data will serve to reduce FTE numbers.

KPI two – reoffending. 3 4 7 More up to date data will be gathered through LiveTracker 2 3 5 and local police data to ensure that re-offending is closely Reoffending figures rise and lead to monitored and action is taken to reduce this. Young people loss of confidence in the with the highest risk of reoffending are given the most effectiveness of YOT interventions impactful sentences. plus in increase in custodial sentences.

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KPI three – use of custody. 1 4 5 Robust alternatives to custody are presented to the Courts. 1 2 3 Close working relationships with Plymouth Social Care Number of custodial sentences and Services ensure that suitable accommodation is available, remands rise due to lack of therefore reducing the pressure for custodial sentences. confidence in non- custodial Similarly remands are kept to a minimum. sentences.

Quality audits do not take place 2 4 6 A monthly programme of multi agency audit takes place 2 3 5 regularly and therefore quality across CYPF services which includes YOT. YOT management assurance and inspection undertake weekly QA in respect of performance and this preparation is hampered. has evidenced a rise in the quality of work/learning in several areas and regular audits based on the HMIP inspection framework are currently taking place.

Lack of meaningful feedback 3 4 7 A very user-friendly process has been purchased 3 3 6 gathered from service users, (Viewpoint) for gathering young person’s feedback and has (young people and parents). been QA by SALT.

This is presented to children and young people at mid and end of order (statutory) /intervention (prevention).

Service unable to provide full 1 3 4 Adverse weather arrangements have been tested 1 2 3 staffing levels due to adverse (infrequently) in recent years and have proved resilient – weather conditions, illness arrangements involve urgent cases being covered as a epidemic or other major incident priority, less urgent matters being cancelled.

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