Newcastle YOT and the department of social sciences at Northumbria University have teamed up on a number of areas of work including a mentoring project and an evaluation of local youth offending work.
Through the mentoring scheme, selected criminology students receive training in child protection, safeguarding and youth justice before working as mentors to young people on community orders.
Meanwhile students have conducted service user feedback questionnaires at YOT projects and carried out wider research into the effectiveness of YOT activities.
The university has also been commissioned to evaluate critical areas of work, in order to shape practice and support funding applications.
Sarah Soppitt, senior lecturer in criminology at the university, said the YOT has been working informally with the university for four years, but the signing of a memorandum of understanding has formalised the process.
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