So-called “serious incidents” involving young offenders in the community, can include deaths, attempted suicides and offences such as rape, or attempted murder.
Youth offending teams (YOTs) are currently obliged to notify the YJB of any serious incidents and compile reports detailing what happened. But following a consultation held last year, a series of pilots will be launched to trial a new reporting process.
Lucy Dawes, director of performance at the YJB, said the existing reporting process was introduced before the creation of local safeguarding children’s boards, leading to a degree of duplication that has not previously been addressed.
The new system means that YOTs will be able to feed their findings into local serious case reviews, except for when there is an extraordinary incident, for which they will still have to provide full reports.
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