CouncilPreventative services
- What are preventive services?
- What is the aim of preventive services?
- When and how are the preventive services available?
- Further information
What are preventive services?
Preventative services are services designed to prevent children and young people, from entering the criminal justice system.
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What is the aim of preventive services?
The aim of preventative services is to:
- Identify children and young people (aged 8 – 17) who are most at risk of being involved in anti-social behaviour, school exclusion and offending behaviour, before they enter the criminal justice system (i.e. before is necessary for courts to deal with them), and
- Prevent these children and young people from entering the criminal justice system by allowing them the opportunity to modify their behaviour.
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When and how are the preventive services available?
Children and young people considered to be at risk will be referred to the youth offending team. This may be a self referral, or a referral by partner agencies/professional bodies, such as the police or social services.
Once children and young people considered to be at risk have been indentified, the youth offending team will offer a ‘package of intervention’, which may include activities such as leisure activities, art programmes, drama workshops, and sports activities.
On a local level, we also have collaborations with various local and community organisations to divert young people from offending. Some of these initiatives are:
- Cyber club - a supervised internet café
- Mudchute farm, a local community farm
- On the one - a music project
- The Toynbee befriending scheme .
The Youth Justice Board has developed a variety of programmes which are intended to achieve this aim.
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Further information
Contact: Youth Offending Team, St.Mary’s Church Hall, Kitcat
Terrace,
Bow E3 2SA
Email: youthoffending@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Tel: 0207 364 1144-
Fax: 0208 983 9911
Pid No: 837
