The Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) focus on a child first approach to youth justice and HM Inspectorate of Probation’s (HMIP) emphasis on risk management leaves youth offending teams and those working in the youth custody estate “confused” and spending more time on paperwork than with young people, according to Dr Anne-Marie Day, a criminology lecturer at Keele University.
“It’s causing chaos. Frontline workers are having to develop two ways of working. They feel that they want to work in a child-first welfare-based way but they are having to complete risk assessment plans and do plans that will satisfy HMIP,” she told CYP Now.
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