eAsset sentence management system
Electronic yellow envelope process (Eye)
Police Electronic Notifications to YOTs (PENY)
Youth Justice Management Information System (MIS)
Police Electronic Notifications to YOTs (PENY)
Project Overview
Early intervention with children and young people who offend can help to reduce repeat offences and provide a better outcome for the young person. Earlier notifications sent via a secure route such as Criminal Justice Secure Mail (CJSM) will ensure all data about a young person is safely transmitted. The Wiring Up Youth Justice programme and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) [link opens in new window] are working on a joint project to enable the supply of notification information from police to YOTs using CJSM or other secure routes.
The project has the full support of the Association of YOT Managers (AYM), Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) [links open in new windows] and the ACPO Youth Issues Group (ACPO YIG). Click to read a letter sent to key stakeholders [42Kb PDF, opens in new window] within the youth justice system introducing the PENY project.
Purpose
The project will implement a national solution to improve the use and sharing of information between 43 Police forces, the British Transport Police and the 157 YOTs using CJSM or other secure routes.
This includes notifications of reprimands, Final Warnings, charges, penalty notices and victim information (where consent is given). The information will be supplied securely, within 24 hours of police disposal and to a nationally agreed minimum dataset.
Benefits
Closer working and information-sharing between the Police and YOTs has several benefits:
- informed decisions on the young person can be made earlier, more consistently, accurately and appropriately
- more opportunities for early interventions at the Final Warning stage that could reduce youth reoffending
- opportunities for restorative justice
- better preparation for court
- compliance with information security standards – ensuring the young person’s information is not compromised or lost when sent
- swifter transmission of information
- more effective support to victims of youth crime.
Latest Situation
National implementation commenced in May 2008 and 37 out of 43 forces are now using the PENY process and sending notifications to 140 YOTs. The Metropolitan Police Service is now completely live with all 32 boroughs of London currently using PENY and British Transport Police are live nationally [links open in new windows].
Contact
For further information email wiringup@yjb.gov.uk.