\n The South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service (YJS) received the rating from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) after an inspection of their work with children and victims.\n<\/p>\n
\n Chief inspector of probation, Martin Jones, praised the service for their commitment and skill.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “The passionate, effective leaders at South Gloucestershire were supported by skilled and committed staff who were tenacious in building and maintaining strong relationships with children, parents and carers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The delivery of activities and interventions to achieve positive change was strong, and the support children received in terms of their education was particularly impressive.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The inspectorate found that the YJS’s collaborative approach with children, families and partner agencies was effective in understanding the children\u2019s strengths, needs and safety.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, it identified the need for greater consistency in planning practice, especially concerning the safety of children and the community.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Jones also highlighted the service’s ability to identify and respond to the neurodiversity needs of children.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, he noted that there was a need for improvement in diversity practice concerning children\u2019s ethnicity, culture and identity.\n<\/p>\n
\n Areas highlighted as needing development include strategic and operational work with victims.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time of the inspection, there was no identified strategic lead on the partnership board to promote and drive improvements in victim work.\n<\/p>\n
\n More oversight from the board was required to ensure that the YJS was sufficiently resourced to deliver personalised services to victims.\n<\/p>\n
\n Inspectors also noted that children’s voices were acknowledged and used to guide service delivery within the YJS and the wider partnership.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Jones said: “Overall, the team at South Gloucestershire should be proud of the work they are doing.\n<\/p>\n
\n “With some renewed focus from the partnership board to improve work with victims, I have no doubt this service can excel.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The inspectorate\u2019s report contains nine recommendations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Three are directed towards the South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Partnership Board, including the need to drive improvement work with victims and hold relevant partners to account.\n<\/p>\n
\n Five recommendations are aimed at South Gloucestershire YJS, including improving the quality of planning practice to consistently identify how to keep the child and community safe.\n<\/p>\n
\n Two recommendations are for Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service (YJS) received the rating from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-594451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}