About Wiring Up Youth Justice

Wiring Up Youth Justice - improving practice and reducing risk

Wiring Up Youth Justice is an ICT programme that will improve how information is used and shared across the youth justice system. Access to information will be quicker, more reliable and more secure, allowing for more effective interventions for young people. Ultimately, Wiring Up Youth Justice will allow the sharing of information to be seamless, not only within the youth justice system but across the whole criminal justice and children’s services community.

Working with practitioners across the secure estate for children and young people, youth offending teams (YOTs) and within the YJB, the programme team has developed a range of initiatives around existing ICT systems and processes within the youth justice system. The programme is therefore driven by the needs of practitioners and the young people with whom they work.

Improving how we use and share information will also reduce the amount of inputting and re-keying of data carried out by practitioners. This will save valuable time that can be better spent elsewhere such as increased time with the children and young people in their charge.

This website is a guide to how the programme will achieve an integrated youth justice community that can share information in a seamless and timely manner.

Publications

Visit our publications and documents library where all documents, newsletters and corporate publications relating to the programme can be found.

The Wiring Up Youth Justice projects

The Wiring Up Youth Justice team is working to deliver a range of ICT tools to support YOTs and the secure estate for young people in providing a quality service. They include:

• eAsset, the sentence planning and management tool for the secure estate
• the increased and continued use of Secure eMail and electronic versions of 'yellow envelope' documents
• YOT case management systems to be connected to other criminal justice organisations
• Remote working facilities to allow information to be shared and updated while practitioners are away from their main office, for example where YOT workers are at court or traveling to meet appointments with young people
• Management Information Systems (MIS) to improve the handling and use of performance management information in the youth justice system.

Every aspect of the programme is based on the needs of practitioners. Find out how we are listening to the youth justice system.

There are many new ICT systems and tools that are being introduced across the wider Criminal Justice System. Ensuring that our projects are compatible with these changes is a vital part of the programme's work. Click to read more about how we are working in partnership with criminal justice organisations.