This webinar series is produced for Youth Justice Professionals, Directors and Executive Leadership within Children’s Services, Team Leaders from Virtual Schools, Social Care, Health, Troubled Families and Early Help Teams, as well as a range of frontline professionals from education settings across the phases.
Targeted speech and language assessments for primary and secondary children at risk of exclusion: Milton Keynes Youth Offending Service.
Outstanding Child First Partnership Practice in Staffordshire and Blackburn and Darwen
Featuring “upstream” diversion and prevention in Staffordshire through local SEND networks, and highly effective multi-agency practice in Blackburn and Darwen
Here is the Blackburn and Darwen CF EPP 2023 presentation and here is the Staffordshire CF EPP 2023 presentation.
Prevention as a partnership responsibility
It is not about waiting for a child to offend… it is all about early identification and early help… with the Youth Offending Team playing a critical role in all aspects of this.. in partnership with other agencies and services.
We are extremely grateful to colleagues from St Helens and Camden who described their provision, partnership systems and processes.
Camden featured an interconnected partnership provision within an Integrated Youth Support Service: the power of networking and intelligent systemic design. (Please find the PowerPoint slides here)
St Helens highlighted a prevention offer supported by a dedicated Education Re-engagement Mentor, working with children, schools and families, a weekly health panel, and a training offer to local providers (such as Care Homes). (Please find the PowerPoint slides here)
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2030 Vision: The Future of Child First Partnership Practice
A reflection on some of the advances in systematic thinking, Assistive Technologies and brain sciences that could have a dramatic impact on reducing the numbers of children entering youth justice pathways in the next decade.
Sharon Gray (YJB Board Member) and Marius Frank (leading the YJ SEND Quality Mark process since 2016) reflect on some of the latest advances in systemic thinking, assistive technologies and brain sciences that could have a dramatic impact on the numbers of children entering youth justice pathways in the next decade. You can also download the PowerPoint presentation (If you need an accessible version of this file, please contact: microlinkteam@microlinkpc.com
Colleagues from Swindon (Download the notes) and East Sussex Youth Offending Services (Download the notes) describe how they are building and empowering local services and providers to be “Child First” in word and deed. (If you need an accessible version of the files, please contact microlinkteam@microlinkpc.com)
The notes supplied by each team are particularly helpful in illuminating their strategic thinking and describing the impact of delivery.
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Following on from the “visioning” webinar in June earlier this year with Sharon Gray, Marius Frank describes how recent advances in Assistive Technologies are rewriting the rulebook when it comes to supporting young people with communication issues.
Marius makes a case for using AT in youth justice pathways, and shares the learning from two recent DfE-funded projects involving over 200 schools in England. Opportunities for Youth Offending Service staff to access training alongside staff from PRUs and Alternative Provision in their areas are also presented.
Here is a slide pack and a key supporting document
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During a recent YJB visit, Barnet’s Youth Justice Strategic Plan for 2023-25 was praised as “one of the best in London”. Cezar Tan describes the vision behind the plan, and how the plan builds on the firm foundations of established, effective partnership practice which includes strong links to education providers, to other Service Teams, and featuring powerful initiatives such as a tri-borough (Harrow, Barnet and Brent) Engage project to identify and support young people during the reachable teachable moment, leading to positive and successful ETE outcomes.
Here is a slidepack and here is a copy of the Strategic Paper
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