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[Sefton YJS (2024)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Sefton’s Youth Connectors are a small team of female youth workers assigned to schools in the area to provide 1-2-1 support and mentoring to girls aged 8-15 years considered at heightened risk of offending or exploitation.
Keywords: young people, female offenders, mental health, wellbeing
[Lancashire YJS (2024)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Chuckery is a not-for-profit sanctuary-farm housing rescue poultry and other livestock; Lancashire YJS has partnered with the farm to provide opportunities for young people to volunteer at the Chuckery, in roles tailored to their skills and interests.
Keywords: young people, engagement, skills training, wellbeing
[Cheshire YJS (2024)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: focusing on social prescirbing for young people at the point of arrest.
Keywords: young people, mental health, wellbeing
[Islington YJS (2024)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: a bi-monthly training session for student officers with Islington & Camden Police, involving children and their parents/carers, exploring their experiences of policing, in particular stop and search.
Keywords: young people, lived experience, community relations
[South Lanarkshire Council (2024)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: “Inclusion as prevention” was a five year project to improve services for young people, with young people themselves at its heart.
Keywords: young people, prevention, diversion
[Gateshead YJS (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Listen to Me is a video scripted, voiced and animated by young people, for other young people involved in the CJS, on how they became involved in offending, their experiences of the CJS, and what worked for them to help them stop offending.
Keywords: young people, diversion, crime prevention, peer engagement
[East Sussex YJS (2023)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Collaboration Against Child Exploitation (CACE) is a parent-led partnership between East Sussex YJS and local parents with lived experience of child exploitation.
Keywords: young people, exploitation
[Bradford YJS (2022)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy Winner: a 1-2-1 knife crime awareness intervention programme, delivered over 3-6 weeks, to local pupils found to be carrying knives at school, or considered at risk of doing so.
Keywords: young people, knife crime, weapons, violence reduction
[Youth Justice Agency (NI) (2022)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: an initiative which directly involves young people – and parents and victims – in all aspects of policy and practice, working towards UNICEF Child Friendly accreditation.
Keywords: young people, co-production, families, victims
[Midlothian Children & Families Service (2022)]
Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: a diversionary youth work service for those at risk of becoming engaged with the criminal justice system.
Keywords: young people, diversion, crime prevention
