Youth offending
Find out below about the work of the Youth Offending Team.
Youth Offending Team
Wolverhampton Youth Offending Team (YOT) brings together trained professionals from different agencies who work together in one office to tackle youth offending behaviour among all young offenders aged 10 to 17.
The Wolverhampton Youth Offending Team is made up of social workers, probation officers, police officers, youth workers, Connexions adviser, education social workers, health and drug misuse personnel and a fire officer. The team is based at Social Services' offices in Birches Barn Road, Penn.
National Standards
The team adheres to National Standards or guidelines issued by the Youth Justice Board. The board sets out a framework for the supervision of offenders in the community and supervision for those serving custodial sentences and after release.
The guidelines urge Youth Offending Teams to provide an effective service and develop public confidence by the rehabilitation of offenders.
All YOTs are required to produce an annual youth justice plan that describes the nature and scale of offending by young people in their area and the programmes available to tackle it.
Objectives of the Youth Offending Team:
- The swift administration of justice so that every young person accused of breaking the law has the matter dealt with quickly
- To help young offenders face the consequences of their offending, for themselves, their families,their victims and the community and help them to develop a sense of personal responsibility
- To work with young people to tackle the particular factors, for example personal, family, educational, or health, that put them at risk of offending
- To ensure that punishment is in proportion to the seriousness and persistence of offending
- To encourage reparation to victims or their communities by young offenders. This can include carrying out useful work to pay back the community
- To reinforce the responsibilities of parents and help them to help their children
- Working with partner agencies, to provide support networks to prevent offending behaviour.
Our services
These are the services provided by Wolverhampton Youth Offending Team
- Attendance and provision of a duty service on Youth Court sentencing days
- Writing pre-sentence and other court reports
- Parenting Order Assessments
- Supervision of community based court orders and provision of progress reports
- Supervision of young people given custodial sentences
- Assessment and intervention with young people who receive Final Warnings - previously known as Police Cautions
- Bail and remand service
- Providing an appropriate adult service for young people in police custody when parents/carers are unable to attend
- Management of Referral Orders and Youth Offender Panels
- Facilitating provision of reparation to victims
- Supervision of young offenders in the community during and after custody
- Offending behaviour group-work programmes
- Parenting support services
- Education/employment and training services
- Drugs assessment/ advice/support
- Mental health assessment/ advice/support
- Youth Inclusion and Support Service (YISP)
- Preventative programmes.
Supporting People
Contacts
Contact details for the Youth Offending Team are provided below:
Wolverhampton Youth Offending Team
Manager Sally Nash
Beckminster House
Birches Barn Road
Wolverhampton WV3 7BJ
Phone: (01902) 553722
E-mail: Youth.Offending@wolverhampton.gov.uk