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Anchor Point:What is the Youth Offending Service?What is the Youth Offending Service?

The Youth Offending Service (YOS) is in place to prevent offending and reduce re-offending by children and young people.

The service consists of staff from the County Council, Police, Probation and Health, and is overseen by a partnership board with an Independent Chair.

Anchor Point:Our objectivesOur objectives 

The objective of the YOS Board is to support and maintain the YOS strategic location at the cusp of the Children's Services, Criminal Justice System and Community Safety agendas. This is to ensure that it:

  • Maintains the confidence of criminal justice agencies and the public in managing risk; and
  • Supports children and young people to stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well-being.

Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service works with young people aged up to 17 years old who are at risk of committing offences or those who have already committed offences in the Lincolnshire area.

Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service have offices based in Lincoln, Horncastle and Grantham.

Anchor Point:What we doWhat we do

The Youth Offending Service works with young people in many different ways:-

  • Prevention Team work with young people at risk of offending aged 8 -17
  • Parenting support provides support for parents whose children are at risk of or have committed offences
  • Act as appropriate adults for young people held at the police station for interview 
  • Assess and provide a programme of work for young people made subject to a Final Warnings
  • Provide support for young people on bail
  • Supervise young people on court orders
  • Supervise young people who are released from custody
  • Offer a service to victims of youth crime.

Anchor Point:Key activitiesKey activities

The Youth Offending Service key activities involve:

  • Assessing the likelihood of re-offending and the risk of causing harm, and planning and managing interventions to reduce these risks;
  • With partner agencies, strengthening protective factors against further offending, and ensuring that children and young people completing YOT interventions have access to the full range of universal services to maximise their life chances;
  • Ensuring that interventions with children and young people are informed by the needs of victims and/or communities affected by their offending, and that victims are supported in taking up opportunities to be engaged in restorative processes with children and young people who offend;and
  • Identifying children and young people at risk of becoming involved in offending and ensuring that targeted and evidence-based interventions are provided directly or by commissioning services to address needs.

Anchor Point:Further informationFurther information

For further information please follow this link to visit the Youth Justice Board website

Last Updated: 29 July 2010

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Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service
Head Office Team, Witham Park House
Waterside South
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN5 7JN

Tel: 01522 554554

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