diversion

How is youth diversion working for children with special educational needs and disabilities?

[Centre for Justice Innovation (2024)]

How youth diversion does not work for many children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Diversion (youth justice) – evidence base

[HMI Probation (2023)]

Summary of the evidence base in relation to diversion in youth justice settings. [From HMI Probation’s Research and Analysis collection].

Keywords: young people, diversion

Inclusion as Prevention (IAP)

[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

Effective point-of-arrest diversion for children and young people

[Clinks (2022)]

Evidence review by Clinks into effective point-of-arrest diversion for children and young people, including good practice principles. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].

Keywords: young people, diversion

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

Bounce Project

[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

Equal diversion? Racial disproportionality in youth diversion

[Centre for Justice Innovation (2021)]

Examines racial disparity in youth diversion – includes examples of promising practice and recommendations for improvement.

Keywords: diversion, diversity, young people

Outcome Evaluation of the National Model for Liaison and Diversion

[RAND Corporation (2021)]

Study showing the National Model for L&D does increase diversion from custodial services, with no evidence on an impact on reoffending.

Keywords: diversion

Ensuring effective referral into youth diversion

[Centre for Justice Innovation (2021)]

Publication outlining the evidence base on referrals, exploring good practice and sharing insights from practitioners to help ensure referrals into diversion schemes operate as effectively as possible.

Keywords: diversion, young people

DIVERT (diversion scheme)

[Cheshire YJS (2021)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: DIVERT is a multi-agency initiative, focused on the point of arrest, to divert the person concerned from ending up in the criminal justice system.

Keywords: young people, diversion