The service is being developed by the Association of YOT Managers (AYM) and YOT Managers Cymru and has been given three years of funding from the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. YOT workers have been seconded to the project which has commissioned the Youth Justice Board's Wiring Up Youth Justice team to help design the system.
Mike Thomas, AYM chair, said the service would be ready in about two years, and would be rolled-out in modules. He said information systems used by police and courts were not compatible with youth justice teams' current systems, meaning that information has to be entered multiple times.
"The Haringey case highlighted the amount of time social workers spend working in front of the computer," he said. "It is no different in youth offending teams. The push for this new system came when managers said they didn't want their workers sitting in front of computers double keying entries, they want them working with young people."
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