This area contains information about improving practice within youth justice services.
The YJB is committed to identifying and promoting effective practice across the whole of the youth justice system to ensure that work with young people is as successful as possible and based on best practice and research evidence.
Click to read more about effective practice (practice that has been proven to improve youth justice services) and emerging practice (practice that has been developed by youth justice services).
You can also read about the following further ways practice can be improved within youth justice services.
- Managing risk: guidance on the use of Asset, the classification and oversight of medium- and high-risk young people, MAPPAs and the Criminal Justice Act 2003
- Prolific and other Priority Offenders strategy: information on the strategy that focuses on the relatively small number of people who cause a disproportionate amount of crime, disorder and mayhem in our communities
- Safeguarding and behaviour management: guidance on keeping children involved in the youth justice system safe and promoting their welfare.
See also the guidance for YOTs, Sustaining the Success, which was informed by a review of the effectiveness of YOT structures. It builds on the 1998 guidance issued on establishing YOTs, which outlined the purpose of YOTs, how they should operate, and how their performance would be monitored.