Youth Justice and The Law

Professionalising Resettlement - Improving Long-Term Outcomes

Resettlement UK aims to bridge the gap between policy and practice - support workers and 15-18 year old custody leavers in order to increase the likelihood of improved long-term outcomes. In many ways the resettlement needs of young custody leavers are identical to the needs of care leavers. Our work supports the development of more appropriate resettlement support services for this group.

'Youth Justice and The Law' --- Confronting the LASPO Act 2012

The 'must attend' training event for all those who work with 15-18 year olds remanded or sentenced to a YOI....

ENDORSEMENT: "Resettlement UK provided Oxfordshire YOS & its partners with a highly professional, informative & enlightening 3 days of LASPO training. The training enabled a wide range of professionals from across different disciplines to come together & work on the implications for practice and strategy as a result of LASPO. It is my view that everyone who attended the training left a little bit wiser..."
Oxfordshire YOS County Manager

The Context

One of the most striking features of nearly all attempts to address the resettlement challenges of 16-18s during the last decade of youth justice reforms, has been the conspicuous absence of a willingness to identify them as 'children in need' under s.17 of the Children Act 1989. Were that to occur now, they would be guaranteed adolescent to adult transitional support services under Children Act legislation...

What RUK Offers

Informed practitioners have a better chance of brokering essential support services for young people. Resettlement UK has developed specialist resettlement training for practitioners to increase their knowledge and understanding of the legislative and social care imperatives that apply to 16-18 year olds returning to the community from custody....

The Leaving Care - Leaving Custody Programme

The programme aims to increase the knowledge and use of relevant Children Act and Housing Act legislation, so that all 16-18 year old custody leavers are better able to access the necessary post-custodial support services....

The Leaving Care - Leaving Custody Programme

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5 Key Resettlement Principles concerning 15-18 year old Custody Leavers

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5 Key Resettlement Principles concerning Local Authorities

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HMI Probation Thematic on Looked After Children

January 19th, 2013

This latest report on outcomes for looked after children in the youth justice system comes from the Probation Inspectorate. Its aim was to find out how effectively youth offending teams worked with

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Professionalising Resettlement - Improving Long-Term Outcomes