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- Empower children and young people’s voices and nurture their aspirations throughout the diversion process. Practitioners should work collaboratively with children and young people to understand and identify their needs, interests, and personal goals.
- Address ethnic disparity in diversion practices, improve understanding of and ways to best support disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs, and care-experienced children and young people.
- Improve inter-agency and multi-agency collaboration. To ensure agencies collaborate well, procedures must be first put into place enabling and emphasising the importance of information sharing.
- Strengthen and expand the evidence base on youth diversion. Overall, there is a lack of data on which children and young people are diverted, how they are diverted (which type and length of intervention they are offered and receive), as well as the outcomes for each child.
Diversion programmes, centred on minimal intervention and diverting children from the formal justice system, are not only compatible with these developmental realities but also align with the goal of the YJS to facilitate a successful, prosocial
- What We’Ve Invested in
- Scope of Programmes We’Ve Funded in This Round
- Why We’Re Investing in Diversion
- Funded Projects
We’ve invested almost £18 million in ten projectswhich all support over 7,300 children and young people through diversion programmes. Our commitment to the evidence is why every one of these projects is being paired with an independent evaluator. Because by improving our understanding of which programmes work and by helping organisations put it int...
We funded projects that met all of the following criteria: 1. Diversionary programmes that provide: (a) Family and parenting support (b) Mental health and therapeutic support (c) Restorative justice 2. Other approaches if they can demonstrate scale and evidence of impact. 3. Programmes that involve a referral by a relevant statutory body, for examp...
Through our conversations with stakeholders, you were clear that we should learn more about what makes a diversion programme effective. And there’s promising evidence that these approaches are effective at preventing reoffending and reducing the risk of involvement in violence. However, the evidence is mainly from the United States and more is need...
The funded programmes will work with children after they’ve been arrested, when they’ve been in hospital because of a violence assault, or when their teachers, youth workers, social workers, local police officers or other adults are worried that they might be at risk of becoming involved in violence. You can read more about the projects below.
There are several reasons why pre-court diversion could protect a child against future involvement in crime and violence. Supporting reintegration. Diversion programmes could reduce stigma while supporting children to develop positive skills and reintegrate into their community.
19 YOTS confirmed that they do not have a diversion scheme at all. The research shows that youth diversion is widely but variably practised. Alongside examples of good practice, there are areas for improvement. 31% of the responding schemes do not require the child to admit guilt to be eligible for diversion.
Oct 27, 2023 · Youth diversion can reduce crime, cut costs, and lead to better outcomes for children. Diversion is a term that can refer to several different concepts and has no fixed meaning in the law in...
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What is youth diversion?
diversion through immediate cost avoidance – primarily avoided costs to the police and court system. The accompanying tool is available free of charge to appropriate schemes.
