Islington Council's "Outstanding" Youth Justice Service

Описание: Our Youth Justice Service (YJS) received an "Outstanding" rating in a report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP).

The report’s score of 34 out of 36 for the YJS is the best result in London to date and the third-highest in all of England and Wales.

In his foreword, Martin Jones CBE, Chief Inspector of Probation for HMIP, praises the “tenacious and innovative approach” of the service as well as its “knowledgeable and passionate” senior leaders. He notes that children supported by the YJS have “access a wide range of services and specialist provision to meet their needs,” including an “impressive” health offer giving them “quick access to key services, such as speech and language therapy and physical and mental health services”.

The report also hails the service’s “genuine commitment to understanding the lived experience of children, parents, and carers and using this to shape service delivery and improve outcomes for children”. One example of this work is ensuring that peer advocates – children with lived experience of the youth justice system – contribute directly to the training of new police recruits.

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