PHIL SUTTON, former YOT manager for Wessex YOT
Youth justice reform had been extensively planned during Labour’s opposition years. It had to regain public confidence in a system that was portrayed in the media as ignoring victims, slow to deal with repeat offending, and lacking any clear, national ownership.
In Hampshire, our two historic cities agreed to work with the county council to continue to provide a local youth justice service coterminous with the police and probation area. We made a successful bid to be one of the five national pilots of YOTs. Simultaneously we were asked to pilot the final warning scheme, child safety orders, local child curfew orders, action plan orders, reparation orders and parenting orders.
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