This report explores how diversion processes are working for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and what can be done to ensure they have the appropriate access to diversion.
This briefing, commissioned by the Youth Endowment Fund, aims to provide an overview of the national inspection frameworks (including joint inspections) that currently exist to monitor the delivery of diversion work undertaken by YJSs and the police, summarise findings and recommendations from recent inspection reports, and outline recommendations for improvements regarding the types of inspections and how these are undertaken as suggested by police, YJS practitioners and inspectors.
This briefing, commissioned by the Youth Endowment Fund, provides an overview of youth diversion data; who collects this data and what it includes, an assessment of the current data available and recommendations for improvement.
This toolkit is for any practitioner who is involved in, or considering creating, a diversion scheme for children in contact with the youth justice system. This is the Centre's 6th edition of the toolkit, published in 2024.
We spoke to Hannah Coban (Head of Service Delivery) and their Specialist Justice Practitioner at Kairos to find out more about their work in women's justice.
We spoke to Paula Carnell, Sunflower Women’s Centre Manager in Plymouth, Devon.
History
We spoke to Natalie Williams, Team Leader at Fresh Start.
About
Fresh Start began in 2018 to work with women who have recently had children removed from their care by local authorities. The service is funded by Sheffield County Council through Children's Social Care and delivered by Project 6. They encourage women to take a pause from being a mother and supports them to move forward in life.
We spoke to Mike Davies, manager of Jig-So and Reflect in Swansea about their Reflect service.
In 2021 we spoke to Mike about Jig-So, an early intervention service to support the wellbeing of vulnerable expectant parents. He also manages Reflect, a service set up in 2018, to support the families that aren't able to stay together once they have gone through Jig-So’s intervention. Parents are only referred to the service from Jig-So and so all of them will have come through social services.
This briefing offers guidance to commissioners for developing drug and alcohol treatment services for women.
We spoke to Maggie Mitchell, Inspiration for Change Manager at North Yorkshire Council about their Inspiration for Change service.
What is Inspiration for Change?