Youth justice plan

Each year Kent YOS produces a Youth Justice Plan. The plan outlines how the statutory youth offending partnership agencies (Social Services, Health, Education, Police and Probation) will work together towards fulfillment of the principal aim of the Youth Justice System which is the prevention of offending by children and young people.

Other key aims of the plan are to:

• Understand why young people in the county are offending, and ensure that services are in place to address those reasons
• Ensure that young people are confronted with the consequences of their offending behaviour
• Acknowledge and where possible meet the needs of the victims of youth crime, while enabling young people to make amends for their offending.