Work with young people in the criminal justice system
- Responding to police reprimands and final warnings, providing appropriate adults, attending and reporting to courts dealing with young people.
- Providing bail support, remand foster carers and supervision for young people awaiting sentence
- Supervising young people serving their sentence in the community including intensive supervision surveillance programmes (ISSP); supervising and staying in contact with young people in custody.
- Showing offenders the impact of their offending by involving them with victims and, where possible, arranging for them to make good the result of their crimes.
YOT help parents by including them and supporting them to understand and respond to their responsibilities.
Diversion initiatives include: Summer SPLASH activities - now part of positive activities for young people and Youth Inclusion Programmes.
Approaches to preventing offending include: "Project Max" - addressing drug and mental health problems and Opportunity Plus - working with young people who are out of school to make sure they get appropriate education .
Use the link on the right to the Bristol Youth Offending Team's section on the Bristol City Council's website for more details and information.
Bristol Youth Offending Team,
Kenham House,
Wilder Street,
Bristol BS2 8PD
Telephone 0117 903 6480
Fax 0117 903 6481