Guide to jointly delivering services: Youth offending teams and children’s social care

Author: Alex Chard, director, YCTCS ltd BIOG

Publication Date: 08 April 2010

Quick links:
Introduction
Which children are at the interface?
Using the guide
Key points
Fundamentals of joint practice
The different policy contexts
Service thresholds
Assessment systems
Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
ICS and the assessment framework
Asset and Onset
Safeguarding
Legal framework and guidance (outline)
Children in need
Legal framework and guidance (outline)
Young people who offend as children in need
Child protection – protecting children from significant harm
Child protection and young people who offend
Legal framework and guidance (outline)
Child protection inquiry
Gangs
Sexual exploitation
Safeguarding issues and young people who offend
Children in care
Legal framework and guidance (outline)
Accommodating children
Accommodation children – detained, remanded and sentenced young people
Sentence includes accommodation
Care proceedings and orders
Children in care and offending
Diverting children in care from the criminal justice system
Issues for YOTs and CSC around children in care
Strategic considerations
Dilemmas of accommodating children through the youth justice system
Bailed to reside as directed
Placing remanded children at home
Bed and breakfast
Joint casework of children in care
Reviews
Care leavers
Legal framework (summary)
Issues for YOTs and CSC around care leavers
Strategic considerations
Joint casework of care leavers
Children in custody
Legal framework and guidance (summary)
The death of Liam McManus
Issues for YOT and CSC around young people in custody

“The statutory aim of the youth justice system is to prevent offending by children and young people.