Identifying and Responding to Criminal Behaviour of Young Person

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• Identifying and Responding to Criminal Behaviour
  of Young Person

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Doncaster ABC Scheme

• Background
• Consultation
• Key Benefits
• Process an overview
• Schools

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Background

• ABCs have served us well
• Increased importance of earlier interventions
• Building on good practice
• Adapted to our local circumstances

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Consultation

• Safer Doncaster Partnership
• - Anti-Social Behaviour/Criminal Damage Theme
• Group
• - Youth Crime Reduction Group
• Range of partner agency meetings
• Service Users, including young people
• Schools, CYPOs and Education Welfare
• Task Finish Group

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Key Benefits

• Dedicated staffing
• Offering support throughout ABC
• Consistency
• Improved information sharing
• Ability to assess effectiveness

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Process an overview

• Built on information sharing
• Information triggers action
• - Log and No further action
• - Yellow card
• - Red Card
• - ABC
• Key role of Neighbourhood Action Groups

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ABC Procedure (up to consideration of an ABC)
Young person comes to notice Agency identifies
a young person engaging in, or at risk of
engaging in, anti-social behaviour
E-mail abcplus_at_doncaster.gov.uk with details of
the young person The ABC team will provide
information available on the young person and
suggest an appropriate course of action.
Yellow Card First Warning
Red Card Second Warning
E-mail abcplus_at_doncaster.gov.uk with details of
action taken so that records and other relevant
agencies can be updated.
ABC to be considered
ABC Process See ABC Process
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Process an overview continued

• Appropriate tailored support
• - Signposting
• - Anger management
• - Victim awareness and consequences
• - Parenting support
• - Individual Support Order (ISO)
• ABC provides co-ordinates support

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• Schools
• Consultation via schools, CYPOs EWO
• Pilot in North and Urban area
• Best placed within their current procedures
• Offers appropriate support at appropriate stages
• Expanding across the borough

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• Delivery of universal and targeted services

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Strategic Development of Delivery

• Strategic Development by identified multi service
  steering group developing Targeted Youth Support.
• Expansion of Youth Crime Reduction Group to
  become cross LAA group to include Targeted
  Support
• Early Intervention, Prevention and Support Theme
  Board

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Locality Based Delivery

• Neighbourhood Delivery of services
• Development of Early Intervention, Prevention and
  Support Service.

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Contact us E-mail - abcplus_at_doncaster.gov.uk
ABC Office - Tel - 01302 736116
Fax - 01302 736116 Ruth Straw (ABC
Co-ordinator) 07500974342 Jim Jones (YOS
Prevention Manager) 07917071057 Rosemead, May
Avenue, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 9AE