North Yorkshire Youth Justice Service is embedded within Children and Families Service – Early Help which comprises of practitioners from a range of partners including the Police, Probation Service, Children's Services, Health, and Education. The Service is also supported by committed and skilled volunteers. The key objective of the Youth Justice Service is to safeguard the welfare of children whilst working in partnership to reducing youth crime and protect the public from serious harm.
The North Yorkshire Practice Model is fully aligned with ‘Child First’ values, underpinning key values and principles which illustrates how we collectively respond to the needs of children, young people, and their families. Our intention is to keep children within their families, schools, and communities to ensure support is provided at the right level by the right person using the right intervention. Taking all possible steps to divert children from formal criminalisation, and where that is unavoidable, fostering trusting and influential relationships to support young people through positive, strengths-based change.
We recognise that children in the Youth Justice Service often have multiple and complex needs, therefore by providing support early, we seek to divert children from the justice system entirely and address their needs by promoting social identity, and supporting young people to find new, constructive purpose in their families and communities.
We deliver preventative and diversionary interventions to both prevent children entering the criminal justice system and for those children already within the system to offer support to prevent further re-offending. For children who become open to our service we assess their individual needs and risks and provide a tailored programme of support with the aim of enabling them to make positive changes. This restorative approach provides support not only for children within our service but also support for victims of youth crime.
Further information including details of court orders, bail arrangements, parole reports, probation support, court procedures and more can be found on the North Yorkshire Youth Justice . The link also provides contact details for the service.
