South Gloucestershie Youth Offending Team

South Gloucestershire Youth Offending Team

Welcome to South Gloucestershire Youth Offending Teams web site

South Gloucestershire Youth Offending Team is a multi-agency partnership based in Filton. The YOT is part of the wider Community Safety Partnership (Recently re-named to Safer & Stronger Strategic Partnership), and works closely with Safer South Gloucestershire and the Drug Action Team. The role of the Team is to assist in preventing offending by children and young people. 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

Community Safety Partnership

South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust

The Team at South Gloucestershire is made up of trained professionals with specific roles working together in one office to tackle youth offending.

The main areas of work for the Youth Offending Team 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 YOT's. 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.
The local youth justice plan is produced annually and includes details of the nature and scale of offending by young people in the area. The YOT is funded by Partner agencies (the Local Authority, Community Safety, National Probation, Health, Police and the Youth Justice Board).

To download an evaluation of the effectiveness of South Gloucestershire Youth Offending Team click here