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Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency working

A review of multi-agency working in response to youth offending praises work to help young people move away from crime, but criticises the response around looked-after children, finds Jo Stephenson.
Multi-agency working needs a holistic, ‘outward-looking’ approach to foster understanding between partners. Picture: TMLSPHOTOG/Adobe Stock
Multi-agency working needs a holistic, ‘outward-looking’ approach to foster understanding between partners. Picture: TMLSPHOTOG/Adobe Stock

Young people supervised by youth offending teams (YOTs) often have multiple needs that are impossible for one organisation to deal with on its own.

That is why multi-agency working is key in ensuring young people get all the support they need to move away from crime and achieve their potential.

In July this year, HM Inspectorate of Probation explored some of the issues that can help – or get in the way of – good multi-agency working.

The findings were based on 45 inspections of YOTs carried out between June 2018 and July 2020.

For each inspection the report authors examined the involvement of statutory and non-statutory partners.

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