We are pleased to announce winners of the 2021 John Hawkins Award: Wakefield Youth Justice Service’s ‘Holistic Approach to Education, Inclusion and Well Being.’ Wakefield’s approach included locating funding streams and grants to develop a bespoke and multi-disciplinary workforce approach to complement existing staff structures that wouldenable the provision of a meaningful education and health…

We have created what we think is a useful template for YOTs to useto induct new members to their Management/Partnership Boards.The presentation has been trialled successfully in one youth justiceservice.We thought members might like to adopt the presentation for theiruse and so we have added this to our website where you candownload it and amend…

HM Inspectorate of Probation are asking for your feedback on their effective practice webpage. Have you seen our effective practice guidance on our effective practice webpage?  Take a few minutes to let us know what you think. We define effective practice as where we see our standards, which are grounded in evidence, learning and experience,…

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The AYM is both shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of a young person in Hillingdon YOT on Friday 8 November 2019. Our thoughts are with the victim’s family and for our colleagues in Hillingdon YOT, to whom we offer any support we can.

AYM members enjoyed an excellent autumn conference at the University of Derby on 16 October 2019. Many thanks to Unitas for hosting this event. More information on speakers and their talks can be found here. Twitter discussion can be found using #aymautumnconf