Connexions
Strategy and Connexions Service section 8.8 refers
Juvenile Justice Services.
1. The Youth Justice Department, Probation Service and the
Youth Offending Teams (YOT) are considered to be a major contributor to the
delivery of the Connexions strategy and by providing personal advice, they also make a contribution to the
Connexions Service.
2.
Connexions
is a member of the Youth Justice Strategy Partnership
Board and contributes to the targets established by the
Crime and
Disorder Strategy and the Youth Offending Team.
3. Members of the Youth Offending Team have been offered the
opportunity to undertake the Diploma for Personal Advisers course.
4. The delivery plan identifies an additional, intensively
working personal Advisor to work with the Youth Offending Team. Carrying a
caseload of eight young people, this Personal Advisor will be able to offer
time-intensive support. This Personal Advisor will be line-managed by the local
YOT Manager.
5.
The Youth Offending
Team will work to deliver the targets in the business plan.
6.
The police service
makes a contribution to the connexions strategy through annually agreed
priorities set by the Home Secretary via the Police Act 1996.
7.
The police and the
Youth Offending Team are represented on the Local Management Committee.
8.
The Probation Service
is represented on the Local Management Committee via the manager of the Youth
Offending Team