The trust is advertising for a national director for the Transition to Adulthood project from today (9 May) and is in discussions with agencies in Bradford and the West Midlands as to where the projects could run.
The scheme will aim to ensure there is seamless co-ordination between all elements of the criminal justice system and related agencies for 18- to 24-year-olds. It is funded using the "bulk" of a 5m grant that the trust is allocating to carry through recommendations made in its 2005 Lost in Transition report into young adults in the criminal justice system.
The report said categorising young people in the criminal justice system by age as juveniles, young offenders or adults is arbitrary and unhelpful and recommended that a single system be developed that treats individuals according to their maturity. As an interim measure it said a network of transition teams should be set up to take responsibility for young adults in the system.
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