The Youth Offending Team is a multi-agency team, managed within the Children’s Services Department, and includes staff from Health, Police, Probation, Education, Social Care and Connexions. The team has been fully operational since April 2000 and works with children and young people aged 10 – 17, and their parents/carers, to prevent youth offending. Services are also offered to victims. Local responsibility for the YOT rests with Bath and North East Somerset Chief Executive. Nationally, the work of the YOT is overseen by the Youth Justice Board, which, in turn, reports to the Home Secretary.
The YOT takes most of its referrals from Police and the Courts, and provides the following services:
- Compass Project for young people aged 8 - 17 at high risk of offending
- Advice and support for young people involved in anti-social behaviour
- Appropriate Adults
- Bail Supervision and Support
- Court Duty to Bath Youth Court
- Court Reports
- Supervision of young men and women subject to Reparation Orders, Referral Orders and Youth Rehabilitation Orders and a range of community Orders
- Work with young men and women subject to custodial sentences, supervision and resettlement support when they return to live in the community
- Intensive Supervision and Surveillance for young people who offend persistently
- Work with parents/carers, including those subject to Parenting Orders [except those made via the Education Act]
- Restorative Justice work, services to victims using restorative approaches
- Family Intervention Project for families of young people at very high risk of offending or re-offending.
- The Local Authority produces an annual Youth Justice Plan which sets out details of how services are to be provided and resourced.
The YOT Team is based at:
12 Charlotte Street, Bath, BA1 2NE
Office opening hours: Monday to Thursday - 8.30am – 5pm Fridays - 8.30am – 4.30pm
Some services are based at Parkside Children's Centre (Compass Project Charlotte Street,Bath) FIP 01225 396931
To talk to someone about Youth Offending, contact us on (01225) 396966, email youth_offending@bathnes.gov.uk or write to us at 12 Charlotte Street, Bath, BA1 2NE.
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