Custody
Our Strategy for the Secure Estate for Children and Young People sets out the assumptions and principles on which the YJB will develop the secure estate and the steps it intends to take to deliver these within the available resources. Download or order both the strategy and the 2007 update from our Publications area.
This area of the website contains information for practitioners about the secure estate.
Click to read about managing the behaviour of young people in custody, including our code of practice, and the use of restrictive physical interventions.
There is also information about T-forms, which provide a structure for assessing young people in custody and managing the training planning and review process, as well as guidance on remand management.
And there is information on how the YJB places young people in custody, including full contact details for the YJB Placements team and details on the Secure Escort Folder.
Elsewhere on the site, the National Standards for Youth Justice Services has guidelines for secure accommodation on page 71. We also have information about JASP – the Juvenile Awareness Staff Programme for the secure estate – in the Workforce Development area.
Support services for young people, who are in or have just left custody, are listed on our public website.
Every Child Matters in custody
See also Delivering Every Child Matters in Secure Settings: A practical toolkit for improving the health and well-being of young people [opens in new window], which is on the NCB's website and was partially funded by us.
The toolkit, which will help practitioners deliver the objectives of Every Child Matters and related national standards and policies, sets out 27 health and well-being entitlements for young people in secure settings. By reviewing services and children's access to them against these entitlements, staff can be confident they are successfully helping to deliver the agenda for improving the health and well-being of young people in custody.