Children Involved in the Youth Justice System: Additional National Guidance

Related guidance

• A Guide to Child First - Youth Justice Board
• Youth Justice Board - Standards for Children in the Youth Justice System - These standards define the minimum expectation for all agencies that provide statutory services to ensure good outcomes for children in the youth justice system.
• Youth Justice Board Case management guidance - Guidance for youth offending team practitioners and managers on how to work with children in the youth justice system.
• YJB and Probation Joint National Protocol for Transitions in England - Protocol to support the planned and safe movement of young people from youth offending teams (YOTs) to the Probation Service when they turn 18.
• National Appropriate Adult website
• Probation Service Management of Young Adults Policy Framework - This Policy Framework sets out the expected ways of working with Young Adults aged between 18 and 25 years old by the Probation Service.
• HMPPS Child Safeguarding Policy Framework - This framework provides HMPPS staff and strategic leads with a summary of requirements as part of their child safeguarding responsibilities.
• Healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings - The standards take a pathway and multi-professional approach, following the young person’s journey through a secure setting. They apply to children and young people aged between 10-17 (inclusive) on both welfare and justice placements in secure centres, including young offender institutions, secure children’s homes, secure training centres and their equivalents.
• Matters of Concern, Safeguarding Concerns, Allegations and Complaints for Children in Custody – Youth Custody Service (Youth Justice Resource Hub) - key safeguarding contact list and a slide pack concerning matters of concern, safeguarding concerns, allegations and complains for matters relating to children in custody.
• Care Experience Matters (GOV.UK) - a guide to how prisons, probation and local authorities can work together to support people with care experience in custody and on probation.
• Children as Suspects and Defendants (CPS) - this guidance sets out the approach prosecutors should take in applying the Code for Crown Prosecutors when deciding whether or not to prosecute, including offering an out of court disposal.