The need to prioritise relationships over the application of "expert fixes" was evident in the findings of the recent HMI Probation report on desistance and young people.
?Indeed, as Dame Glenys Stacey said recently, a "trusting, open and collaborative relationship with a YOT worker or other professional" is not "rocket science" but hugely crucial if offending is to be prevented.??
However it must be recognised that not all youth offending service workers can achieve the aim of building empathic and authentic relationships for various reasons. Some of these reasons include diminishing resources, existing cultural challenges with some staff not seeing it as "core" business, procedural and bureaucratic systems and "box-ticking" tasks hindering engagement between workers and children.??
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