Youth Justice News
| Author | Tim Bateman |
| DOI | 10.1177/1473225419828877 |
| Published date | 01 April 2019 |
| Date | 01 April 2019 |
| publishedBy | Sage Publications, Inc. |
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Youth Justice
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Youth Justice News
Tim Bateman
Children in England and Wales Who Feel They Were
‘Treated Fairly’ by Their Youth Offending Team Are Significantly
More Likely to Report Being Less Likely to Reoffend
The work of youth offending teams (YOTs) in England and Wales is inspected by Her
Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation; the most recent programme of inspections com-
menced in 2012 and was completed in 2017. From 2014 onwards, the inspection process
included the use of an anonymous online survey to capture the views of children in rela-
tion to their experiences of statutory supervision. An analysis of the findings from these
self-reports was published by the Inspectorate in November 2018.
Over the 3-year period, a total of 14,542 surveys were returned by children through 154
YOTs. While the gender and ethnicity profiles of children responding were broadly similar
to the national caseload, there were differences in terms of age, with those 17 years and
over more likely to complete the survey. Children subject to a referral order (a ‘low tariff’
disposal that is a near mandatory penalty for children who plead guilty for a first time
appearance in court but is also available for subsequent offending where a guilty plea is
entered) were slightly overrepresented in the sample, and those subject to a youth rehabili-
tation order (YRO) (a higher tariff order available for offending that is ‘serious enough’ to
warrant a ‘community sentence’) were correspondingly underrepresented. As a conse-
quence, while the findings are of considerable value and interest, they cannot be considered
to be necessarily representative of the views of all children subject to YOT supervision. A
breakdown of responses by the characteristics of respondents is given in Table 1.
The large majority of respondents – over 90 per cent in each case – indicated that:
they understood the requirements of their referral order contract or supervision
plan;
where barriers existed that made their engagement more difficult, the YOT had
helped to overcome them;
they had been adequately consulted as to the contents of the requirements of super-
vision; and
Corresponding author:
Tim Bateman, School of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire, University Square, Luton LU1 3JU, UK.
Email: tim.bateman@beds.ac.uk
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