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Youth Offending Prevention Service is a multi-agency group that seeks to prevent offending and Anti Social Behaviour by offering a Voluntary Support Service to children, young people and their families.
The emphasis is to ensure that children and their families receive, at the earliest opportunity, mainstream public services, together with complementary interventions from voluntary and community groups, as appropriate to their need.
More recently, the Youth Offending Prevention Service is contributing to and supporting the integrated working model across
the City basing the team in North, South and the Central Area.
Youth Offending Services responsibilities are:
- To work towards one overall aim of preventing youth offending.
- Working with young people who receive final warnings.
- Providing a variety of services to the youth court, including writing pre-sentence reports, short format reports and advising Magistrates on outcomes for young people.
- The supervision of court orders.
- To work with victims of youth crime, known as restorative justice work as part of the above orders.
- Supervision of young people during and after periods of custody.
- Providing appropriate adult services in police stations and court.
- Crime prevention.
- Recruitment of volunteers to support the referral order process.
Our partners
Our work is delivered in partnership with and through;
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- Police
- Probation
- Primary Care Trust
- Accommodation Providers
- Secure Estate
- Connexions
- Local Criminal Justice Board
More information about our services
For further information please contact us on the details below
Youth Offending Services
Ringway House
Bryan Street
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST1 5AJ
Telephone: 01782 235858
Fax: 01782 235860
Email: youth.offending.services@stoke.gov.uk
If you've got worries or need some advice we can help. If something is worrying you or making you scared and you are not sure if it's abuse, it's important to talk to someone you trust. Visit the Safeguarding Children Board website for information and advice about issues which may be affecting you and how to contact for support.