Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB)

We've published a new research report: Addressing racial disparity in the youth justice system. 📊 We all have an important role to play in addressing racial disparities, so we commissioned Revolving Doors to outline ways to influence and improve practice across the sector. 📈   The report showcases a range of promising practices across England and Wales that can help inform services in other areas who are looking to either adapt or adopt a similar approach. Ongoing implementation and evaluation over the longer term is essential to inform our overall understanding of the effectiveness of these programmes in a range of contexts.     Change starts with listening and the examples in this report emphasises the value of collecting and sharing monitoring and evaluation data including children's views. This is how we will drive meaningful reforms in youth justice. 👂 Read the report ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e-4KAJAK #YouthJustice #Research #BlackHistoryMonth #RacialDisparity

Did you know that our Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 is also available in Welsh? 🐉 Find it on GOV.UK ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eqU76j64

The youth justice system can be difficult to navigate, especially for children and young adults. 🛣 Our Resource Hub has a range of accessible videos and guides designed to share with children and young adults.📽 Check them out! https://lnkd.in/ejFP5cmX #ChildFirst #Resources

This month we’re celebrating the contributions of individuals from Black and Mixed heritage backgrounds for their profound impact on the justice system, and the incredible and challenging work they do to reduce offending, and create safer communities with fewer victims. It’s also a time to reflect on the challenges Black communities continue to face and a chance to take actionable steps to promote equity in the justice system and beyond. Carlene Firmin MBE is a professor of sociology at Durham University, specialising in safeguarding children, social justice and inequality. She has particular expertise in social care responses to abuse between children and harm outside the family home. She is the founder of the concept Contextual Safeguarding, a theoretical and operational framework which addresses the social and cultural contexts in which abuse occurs. This research has changed how safeguarding systems respond when children are harmed. She has spent over ten years in voluntary and statutory agencies, researching children and young people’s experiences of community and group-based violence and advocating for comprehensive social care and wider safeguarding approaches that keep children safe in public places, schools and peer groups. Carlene is committed to creating safe and accessible work environments for racially minoritised professionals involved in safeguarding and violence prevention, and is involved in various initiatives to build equitable services and systems. She has written four books and over 50 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and reports, with notable works including ‘Contextual safeguarding and child protection: Rewriting the rules’ and ‘Innovation in Social Care: New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms’. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest Black woman to receive an MBE for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK. #BlackHistoryMonthUK

Black and Mixed heritage children continue to be over-represented at all stages of the youth justice system. Our latest report showcases a range of promising practices to address racial disparity across the youth justice sector. The report also highlights the importance of monitoring and evaluating practices to drive meaningful reforms in youth justice and is a useful read for services looking to implement a similar approach. Find the report here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e-4KAJAK #BlackHistoryMonth #RacialDisparity

Have you read our new report: Addressing racial disparity in the youth justice system? 📚 Through case study examples of local practice delivered by youth justice services and partners across the sector, it outlines ways to improve practice to tackle racial disparity and over-representation in the youth justice system. Have a read ⬇🧾 https://lnkd.in/e-4KAJAK #RacialDisparity #Overrepresentation #YouthJustice

The report highlights promising practices in youth justice across England and Wales, offering guidance for other regions seeking to adopt similar approaches. Ongoing evaluation and incorporating children’s perspectives are vital for driving meaningful reforms and understanding the effectiveness of these programs, definitely worth a read!

👮♀️ National Police Chiefs' Council has launched a new Children and Young Person's Policing Strategy which aims to "create a culture of Children Centred Policing across the whole of policing in England & Wales". Read the strategy to find out more ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eG9nBwHD

Well worth a read to find out more about the community-based practices ongoing across England and Wales to address racial disparity in the youth justice system! 📚 #YouthJustice #ChildFirst

This month we’re celebrating the contributions of individuals from Black and Mixed heritage backgrounds for their profound impact on the justice system, and the incredible and challenging work they do to reduce offending, and create safer communities with fewer victims. 🖤 It’s also a time to reflect on the challenges Black communities continue to face and a chance to take actionable steps to promote equity in the justice system and beyond. ⚖ Ben Lindsay OBE is the Founder and CEO of Power The Fight - 2023 Charity of the Year. Launched in 2019, the award-winning charity aims to tackle the issue of violence affecting children and young adults, creating long-term solutions for sustainable change and acts as a link between the community and policy makers. Ben began his career developing programmes in some of the most challenging estates in London: Brixton, Clapham and Lewisham. While at Lewisham, Ben developed several successful programmes including the ground-breaking knife crime prevention programme Double Edge for children impacted by violence which featured in the ‘Gang and Group Offenders – A Practitioner’s Handbook of Ideas & Interventions’ published by the London Criminal Justice Board. 📘 Ben is a winner of the KPMG Black Entrepreneurs’ Award Most Promising Not For Profit Organisation 2024, Charity Times of the Charity Times Social Media Leader 2023 and Rising Leader 2022 and one of the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 London’s most influential people for 2018. 🥇 He is an award-winning and bestselling author, an experienced presenter, trainer and facilitator with more than 20 years experience in youth justice. Ben was awarded an OBE in King Charles’ first New Years Honours List for services to communities in southeast London. 🎉 #BlackHistoryMonth #YouthJustice