It highlights how improving national data collection and the sharing of information between children’s services and supporting agencies can prevent and reduce serious crime. Likewise, it acknowledges the significance of links with education and social care to identify and support those at risk of becoming involved in the youth justice system.
Unfortunately, it fails to recognise the role of digital in enabling and supporting any of its recommendations. Technology is only referenced twice in the strategy; once in the foreword to highlight the increasing use of digital in a post-Covid world and a second time to outline how children’s misuse of new technologies can be a risk factor for offending.
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