In a report published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP), Cardiff Youth Offending Service (YOS) was handed the lowest possible performance rating and told it needs to make wide ranging improvements.
HMIP inspectors, who carried out a routine inspection together with colleagues from health, police, education and social care inspectorates in January, looked at 12 aspects of the service’s work rating each one "inadequate" for the first time.
Arrangements for governance and leadership, staffing, partnership and services, and information and facilities, all failed to meet the inspectorates’ required standards, the report states.
“We, therefore, have serious concerns about the effectiveness of organisational delivery in Cardiff YOS,” it concludes.
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