With the Youth Endowment Fund, we've produced this guidance to support police forces – and the wider partnership – in navigating the complexity in ensuring that a child receives the most appropriate outcome following arrest by embedding robust and transparent decision-making, effective partnership working and evidence-based support.

The third Family Drug and Alcohol Courts annual report highlights how over 2024 we have seen the development of current FDACs and the growth of important new research on its impact. The report also pulls together key figures on the activity and impact of these courts over 2024, and celebrates the hard work of the teams who deliver them - and, most importantly, of the families themselves.

This briefing aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender-specific pre-court diversion schemes by providing best practice principles for pre-court diversion for women. 

This briefing provides practitioners with practice principles to improve the use of out of court resolutions for young adults, aged 18–24. These good practice principles are developed in this paper through an exploration of the evidence context, current policy, case studies and lived experience research.