Greater Manchester
Youth Justice
Transformation
Programme
Programme Overview
• GM Youth Justice Transformation aims to reduce reoffending, victims and
demand across the CJS and wider public sector.
• Youth Justice Service operating models currently vary widely across
Greater Manchester local authority areas.
• We are taking a whole system Greater Manchester approach to delivering
youth justice services which enables us to implement common standards
and pathways that delver consistent outcomes regardless of where young
people access services. This approach will:
▪ Enable a consistent YJS across GM.
▪ Integrate youth justice services into the wider community based
offer for young people
▪ Coordination of services at points in the system where it has the
greatest impact including Early Intervention.
▪ Improve outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Programme Vision
By 2020…
…to have a Greater Manchester whole system approach
to delivering youth justice services for children and
young people through co-commissioning of services
and implementation of common standards regardless
of where in Greater Manchester children and young
people access services.
Through this GM whole system change we will radically
improve outcomes for young people.
Programme Target Outcomes
• Reduce the number of victims and demand across criminal
justice agencies, health, housing, local authorities and the
wider public sector
• Reduce offending by children and young people
• Reduce the number of LAC and other vulnerable young
people with in the CJS
• Reduce the use of sentencing and custody by providing an
integrated, community based youth justice offer which is
focussed on Early Intervention.
Programme Drivers
• The YJS as a whole and Youth Offending Teams are under increasing
financial pressure - 21% less funding from YJB between 2015-17, further
cuts expected.
• In February 2016 Charlie Taylor reported initial finding on the Youth Justice
Review including a more devolved YJS and Secure Schools.
• In May 2016 GM agreed a 4th devolution deal with government, which
included Justice and rehabilitation. The MoU included a commitment to:
–
‘Work together to better align, commission and deliver services for youth
offenders and, through the Youth Justice Review, develop plans for a more
devolved youth justice system including the creation of new models of
secures chools for under 18s in the region.’
• The Youth Justice Review also sits within a fundamental review of
Children’s Services in GM, which also includes LAC, integrated health, Early
Help, Education & Early Years and Complex Safeguarding.
Wider Reform Context
Children’s Services
Review
• Early help and integrated
health
 Looked after children
 Education and early years
 Place based work (PSR
team)
Health and
Social Care
• C&YP MH programme
 GM learning disabilities
group
Youth Justice
Transformation
Justice &
Rehabilitation
 Justice Devolution
 Police Custody Triage
& Diversion
 Victim Support
 Family Support
 Substance Misuse
Adults’ Services
Review
 Transition into adult
Criminal Justice
Devolution Timeline
Devolution Timeline
Programme Workstreams
GM YOS Commissioning
• Commission services at a GM level to enable consistency and
to enhance provision.
Common Youth Offer
• Implement a common targeted youth offer across GM which
integrates with early help and partners at council level.
Consistent Diversion & Triage
• Develop a GM model for dealing with out of court disposals.
Triage into earlier intervention to support vulnerable Young
People.
GM Court Offer
• Re-shape YO courts services to meet new structures and
demands and develop alternatives to sentencing.
Programme Workstreams
Children in Police Custody
• Develop a high standard of GM provision for young people
taken into police custody to ensure their safety and
appropriate support.
YOI Custody & Resettlement
• Review current provision for custody and resettlement in GM
including outcomes for young people leaving custody and
agree strategy to improve safeguarding and outcomes.
Local Secure Estate
• Explore options and make the case for developing a secure
estate within GM for young offenders
Mental Health
• Developing a GM Mental offer.
Cross Cutting Work
Looked After Children
• To develop a GM wide approach to preventing Looked after
Children and other vulnerable groups from entering the youth
justice system.
Data Analysis
• This is an enabling workstream, including overcoming data
sharing issues and analysis across the programme.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
• A partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University to
bring academic research and best practice into GM services.
Comms and Workforce Development
• Under development.
Programme Governance
Immediate Next Steps
• Hold a workshop with workstream leads to plan key
workstreams, challenging ourselves to be ambitious and drive
forward this work.
• Build on the success of our First Youth Justice Transformation
Board to build relationships with government and make
strategic decisions.
• Finalise the GM Secure Estates Business Case and enter into
discussions with Government.
• Harness the momentum from the publication of Lord Laming’s
review on reducing criminalisation of LAC in the YJS.
• Consider communications and workforce development.
Discussion
Devo / PSR questions
Links to Family Support questions
1. What do we think we do
well/works well now?
1. How does current provision (Youth
2. What could we do better? What
would we change and why?
3. What can we do ourselves and
what might we need devolution to
help us with?
4. What could those specific Devo
asks be - have we considered the
risks?
Justice) currently interact with early
intervention models in your district for
complex individuals / families?
2. What do we want this to look like?
3. How will we make this happen?