Welcome to the YOS Scaled Approach Briefing

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Welcome to the YOS Scaled Approach Briefing

• Professor Nick Frost,
• Leeds Metropolitan University

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Youth Justice and Leeds

• Paul Rogerson CBE
• Chief Executive, Leeds City Council

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Leeds YOS Key Demographics and Outcomes

• Mike Richardson
• YOS Information Manager

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Key YOS Statistics 2008/09

• 6th highest ranked YOS in the country for
  offences
• 4036 Offences recorded
• 2668 Disposals recorded by Police and Courts
• 1853 Orders Supervised by the YOS
• 3rd busiest YOS in the country

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Offence Types
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Age Gender Profile of Offenders
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Disposals
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Lower Level Super Output Areas
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First Time Entrants (YOS rate per 100,000)
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Re-Offending Rates
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Performing ExcellentlyThe 6 National Indicators

• FTEs reduced by over 20 since 2005
• Custodial Sentences reduced consistently over the
  past 5 quarters
• ETE figures up 22.5 since 2006/07
  outperforming the YOTs in the region, our
  statistical neighbours and the national average
• Accommodation figures up 4 since last year at
  94.7
• Success in reducing the disparity between BME
  groups in the wider population and the offending
  population
• Recidivism rates remain unchanged since last year
  and show substantial improvement against a YJB
  baseline set in 2005

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Why the Scaled Approach?

• Jim Hopkinson
• Leeds YOS Manager

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Purpose of the presentation

• To outline
• The key aspects of the Criminal Justice and
  Immigration Act 2008 (CJI)
• The main provisions of the Youth Rehabilitation
  Order (YRO)
• The Scaled Approach and its implications for Leeds

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Key Aspects of the CJI Act

• Purposes of Sentencing
• Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO)
• Changes to Referral Orders
• Youth Conditional Caution
• Custody-related changes

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The YRO

• Simplifies juvenile sentencing structure
• Provides robust community sentences
• Sentencing proposal tailored to individual risk
  and need
• A menu of interventions to tackle offending
  behaviour multiple use by adapting the menu

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What does it replace?

• Action Plan Order
• Attendance Centre Order
• Community Punishment Rehabilitation Order
• Community Punishment Order
• Community Rehabilitation Order
• Curfew Order
• Drug Treatment and Testing Order
• Supervision Order
• Exclusion Order

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YRO Requirements

• Supervision Requirement
• Programme Requirement
• Activity Requirement
• Attendance Centre Requirement
• Curfew Requirement
• Education Requirement
• Residence Requirement (16/17 year olds only)
• Local Authority Residence Requirement
• Drug Treatment Requirement
• Drug Testing Requirement (14 years old or over)

• Mental Health Treatment Requirement
• Intoxicating Substance Treatment Requirement
• Exclusion Requirement
• Prohibited Activity Requirement
• Electronic Monitoring Requirement
• Unpaid Work Requirement (16/17 year olds only)
• Intensive Supervision
• Intensive Fostering

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Why a Scaled Approach?

• Audit Commission (2004) recommendation
• YOTs should make better use of Asset to
  determine the amount as well as the nature of
  interventions with individuals using a scaled
  approach
• Evidence says that interventions are more
  effective when
• the level and intensity of intervention is
  matched to an assessment of the risk of
  reoffending
• it is focused on the risk factors associated with
  offending
• Mirrors adult Court interventions

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The Scaled Approach

• Interventions designed to
• reduce the likelihood of reoffending
• reduce the risk of serious harm
• support the new sentencing framework
• tailored to individual risk and need
• The project ensures a coherent relationship
  between
• National Standards for Youth Justice Services
  (must dos)
• Key Elements of Effective Practice (what to do)

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Statutory contacts by intervention level
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Projected annual workload (contact)
Projected contact increase in Leeds 17
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Lessons from Scaled Approach pilots

• Strategic level
• Ownership at management board and senior
  management level
• Multi-agency working is crucial to meet multiple
  needs
• All mainstream services must be closely involved
• Close working with courts essential

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Lessons from Scaled Approach pilots

• Operational level
• Good quality assessment is paramount, with
  performance management and quality assurance
  supporting this
• Degree of cultural change should not be
  underestimated
• Staff need to be fully engaged done with not
  done to
• Higher risk requires higher contact levels to
  support menu
• YRO contacts need to be targeted and imaginative

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Leeds YOS Meeting the challenges

• Structural changes
• Project management group
• Workload planning

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Synergies with other workstreams

• Reducing custody agenda
• End to end case management
• Consistent and improved assessment
• Integrated processes in wedges
• Inspection planning

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Stakeholder engagement

• Range of YRO requirements Leeds YOS is able to
  offer is dependent on stakeholder engagement
• Several YRO requirements require protocols with
  stakeholders
• May need to revise service level agreements
• May need to revise commissioning specifications,
  e.g. substance use

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The Court as Stakeholders

• Bob Baird
• YOS Court Manager

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The Role of the Courts and the YOS Court Team

• 4 Key areas
• Training
• Assessment
• Sentencing
• Enforcement

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Training

• Leeds YOS is committed to engagement with
  sentencers and legal advisors in training and
  development sessions
• Introductory training for sentencers is vital to
  the success of the Scaled Approach, and YOS staff
  will be available as required
• We will continue to be available to engage in
  ongoing training

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Assessment

• The purpose of assessment is not to usurp the
  Courts role in deciding on sentence
• YOS role to assist the Court in determining the
  most suitable sentence by examining
• Offence seriousness
• Mitigating and aggravating factors and
• Proposing interventions likely to reduce
  reoffending and harm posed by the offender

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Using the Scaled Approach

• Courts responsibility
• Deciding sentence
• Proportionality
• Length of sentence
• Type of requirements included in YRO

• YOS responsibility
• Assist the Court (by PSR or other report) to
  determine most suitable sentence
• Tailor proposals with aim of reducing further
  offending and risk to others
• ASSET assessment to suggest overall intervention
  level for supervision

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Making it work!

• Evidence from adult orders show most successful
  when offenders are not overloaded with
  requirements
• i.e. Two focused requirements will yield more
  success than half a dozen haphazard ones
• Focus is best maintained when orders are as short
  as possible
• This will enable the YOS to target resources on
  risky young people requiring intensive
  intervention

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Programme development

• Karen Fawcett
• Scaled Approach Implementation Group

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Purposes of Presentation

• Development of Programmes Team
• Existing YOS Programmes
• Development of new Programmes
• Meeting Diversity

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Programmes team rationale

• Deliver the programme requirement of the YRO
• Menu of offence focused programmes, as part of
  robust community sentences
• Quality assured programmes, consistently
  delivered and developed according to YJB guidance
  on effective practice.
• Staffed by YOS workers and seconded specialist
  staff

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Programme menu - existing programmes

• Car crime
• Respect - sexually inappropriate behaviour
• Knife possession prevention programme
• No to dealing - drug dealing
• JETS - intensive thinking skills and problem
  solving
• Substance Use modular group- tier 2 needs
• DFuse - anger management
• Escape - parenting programme

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Developing new programmes

• Reflect changing priorities of the city and
  profile of offending behaviour
• Shortly launching a burglary programme
• Need stakeholder support and co-operation to
  develop and deliver wide range of programmes
• Strong victim focus to programmes, also victim
  empathy group session delivered

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Meeting diverse needs of young people

• Programme suitability assessed prior to
  sentencing
• Individualised intervention plans continue- but
  will reflect YRO requirements and intervention
  levels under the scaled approach
• Programmes- individual or groups
• Speech and language therapist assessing programme
  content for suitability
• Equality Impact Assessments

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Youth Justice Where Next?

• Frances Done
• Chair of the YJB

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Questions to Panel

• Chair Andy Lloyd
• Trinity and All Saints