Youth Offending Service
Vale of Glamorgan Youth Offending Service is a multi-agency
partnership based in Barry. It works with young people aged between
10 and 17 years who are offending or at risk of offending.
We achieve this is by working together with
young people and their parents or carers, the victims of crime and
other agencies or organisations including the local
community. The Youth Offending Service is a one-stop shop for
all young offenders, with teams of trained professionals with
specific disciplines working together in one office to tackle youth
offending.
The YOS is composed of social workers,
probation officers, police officers, education and health workers,
and drug misuse professionals.
The main areas of work for the Youth Offending Service are:
- To reduce the risk of further offending by young people and to
help them to face up to the consequences of offending
- To work with and support victims
- To support young people who are bailed by the courts
- To prepare reports for the courts
- To supervise young people on court orders
- To assist with arrangements for a young person remanded to
Local Authority care by the courts
- To support young people during sentence and on release from
custodial sentences
- To assist parents through voluntary support and through
Parenting Orders
- To provide Appropriate Adult Services when a young person is
being questioned by the police and a parent is unable to
attend
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) was established
in September 1998 to oversee the introduction and performance of
YOTs. The Youth Justice Board have set out National Standards for
promoting high quality, effective work, with children, young
people, their families and victims of crime.
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.
Several agencies contribute to the overall
budget of the YOT to tackle youth crime.