Purpose

The Youth Justice Plan headlines achievements
against last year’s plan and outlines the priorities,
opportunities, and challenges for the coming year. The work
of
Stockport’s Youth Justice & Targeted Youth Support
Service is monitored through the Youth Justice Partnership Board,
which in turn reports to the Stockport Family Partnership Board and
the One Safer Stockport Partnership (OSSP). Stockport
Children’s Safeguarding Executive (LSB) also receives updates
and reports as required.

Youth Justice and Targeted Youth Support Services are proud to be
part of the ‘Stockport Family’ integration, which has
brought together colleagues from across the whole of
children’s services, including partners from the NHS, to work
in a more collaborative and better coordinated way.

The Youth Justice Plan is a key document on the Council’s
Forward Plan. Therefore, it goes through full democratic processes
for scrutiny and oversight before final approval and adoption at
full Council. This year, we have focused on the recommendations of
the Youth Justice HMI Inspection
(led by HMI Probation). As Chair of the Board, I undertook to build
upon the strengths that were identified and ensure that the areas
for improvement were implemented through
clear accountability arrangements across the partnership. I am
pleased to report that the HMI Action Plan has been robustly
reviewed at regular intervals to ensure that we remain on track
with the 7 recommendations that were highlighted by HMIP. The
progress against these will be clear within this plan and we
continue to scrutinise any areas that the partnership needs to
progress further to meet our exacting standards

Content

The Council Meeting
has approved and adopted the Youth Justice Plan 2023/24.