Southend-on-Sea YJS has received an overall rating of “requires improvement” following an inspection by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
Chief inspector of probation Martin Jones said: “Whilst staff and management at Southend-on-Sea understand their children well and have an enthusiastic, child-centred approach to their practice, the management board need to better understand the needs of the children known to the service, particularly those who are care experienced or are over-represented in the system.”
Inspectors say in their report that both the service’s “board and partners need to better understand the overrepresentation of care experienced children to avoid the unnecessary criminalisation”.
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