Curriculum Information

Theories of crime.
The history, policy, and politics of the Youth Justice system in England and Wales.
The Youth Justice system, and linked areas - Youth Work, Education, Training, Employment, Health, Housing and Social Care (policy, effective practice and priorities).
The Welsh specific context to work with vulnerable young people and those who offend.
Children’s rights and children and young people’s voices within Youth justice, Youth & Community work, Education, Health and Social Care.
Child First Youth Justice.
Desistance, theory of change and strengths-based approaches.
Youth work as an upstream, prevention, early intervention and reintegrative service
Diversion.
Prevention* and the risk factor paradigm.
Diversion
Community*
Custody*
Post-Custody
Children in prison and constructive resettlement.
Restorative justice– roots, routes, design, and differences made.
Restorative practices in non-justice settings (schools, youth work and residential children’s homes).
Disproportionality as experienced by young people in the youth justice and related systems (young people who are BME, looked after, have additional learning needs, SLCN, mental ill-health, have experienced school exclusion etc.).
Young people as victims (Child criminal exploitation, county lines, child sexual exploitation, radicalisation, gangs, knife crime, serious violence and organised crime, trafficking).
Contextual safeguarding.
Trauma informed practice (Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, resilience, identity, transitions).
The relationship between education (attendance, achievement, SEN, ALN, SLCN, mental health) and offending.
Youth offending, vulnerability and the Covid-19 context.

*Italicised content is the current priority of the YJB national work streams (Jan 2020)