Reducing Reoffending
This area covers the work carried out to prevent or reduce future offending by young people who have already committed crimes.
Click to read about the
intensive fostering programme, an alternative to custody for children and young people whose home life is felt to have contributed significantly to their offending behaviour.
To find out about the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP), the robust and innovative community sentence designed to tackle the causes of offending, or to download the tools that accompany ISSP Management Guidance, go to our
ISSP section.
Finally, this area contains information on
resettlement, which is vitally important in helping young people leaving custody, whatever their background or circumstances, to receive the support they need.
Communities and Civil Renewal
Click to download the NOMS and YJB Approach to Communities and Civil Renewal [496.7Kb PDF, opens in new window], which sets out a strategy to reduce offending and re-offending by involving communites and victims in the justice system.