According to Chris Stanley, head of youth crime at Nacro, many of the reforms ushered in by the Youth Justice Board have found favour with workers on the ground. "The appointment of Rod Morgan as chair and Ellie Roy as chief executive has brought the board much more in tune with what is happening on the ground," he says.
Progress has been made
Roger Howard, chief executive of Crime Concern, says: "The Youth Justice Board is really a model of how to focus on a problem on a national level but get a strong buy-in at a local level."
Uanu Seshmi is a director of the From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation, a mentoring and educational development group that focuses on Black young men in south London. He thinks community involvement could go further. "The Youth Justice Board is heading in the right direction, but its community sentencing programmes would work better if it consulted existing community groups," he says.
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