About the Youth Justice Service
Medway Youth Justice Service is a multi-agency team working with children and young people aged between 10 and 17 who have committed an offence.
We support them to help make changes in their lives so they do not get into further trouble. This includes promoting restorative justice and working with victims. We let victims know what has happened to the child or young person who harmed them, and offer support to victims who ask for it.
Our aim is to:
- prevent children and young people aged between 10 and 17 years from offending and re-offending
- encourage and inspire children and young people to help them reach their potential and work towards their goals
- ensure we have a child-first approach, putting children and young people at the heart of what we do. This is to ensure they have the right support and can influence our service delivery and decision making.
Read our Youth Justice Service privacy policy.
Referrals
A magistrate or district judge at a court refers young people to the service when they convict them of an offence and give either a community or custodial sentence.
We carry out an assessment for each young person referred to the service. This identifies the strengths and areas they might want to work on as part of their plan.
What we do
Medway Youth Justice Service can help with:
- finding positive activities
- employment, education and training
- advice and support around the consequences and involvement in anti-social behaviour
- weapons awareness
- thinking and making positive decisions
- managing emotions
- support around substance misuse
- support around physical and emotional health
- advice on sexual health matters
- parenting support.
Our team
Our team includes:
- social workers
- youth justice officers
- police officers
- probation officers
- victim worker
- clinical practitioners.
Our team also has staff for substance misuse and access to children and young people's mental health services. It also works with children’s services, schools and education.