Peterborough City Council Youth Offending Service

The principal aim of the team  is to work towards preventing young people aged 10-17 offending.  By using an evidence led approach, improving outcomes for victims and working in partnership,  the team provides the following statutory services to young offenders, their families, courts, victims of crime  and the people of Peterborough:

(a) the provision of persons to act as appropriate adults to safeguard
the interests of children and young persons detained or questioned by police officers;

(b) the assessment of children and young persons, and the provision for them of rehabilitation programmes, for the purposes of section 66(2) below;

(c) the  provision  of support  for  children  and  young persons remanded or committed on bail while awaiting trial or sentence;

(d) the placement in local authority accommodation of children and young persons remanded or committed to such accommodation under section 23 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ("the 1969 Act");

(e) the provision of reports or other information required by courts in criminal proceedings against children and young persons;

(f) the provision of persons to act as responsible officers in relation to parenting orders, child safety orders, reparation orders and action plan orders;

(g) the supervision of young persons sentenced to a probation order, a community service order or a combination order;

(h) the supervision of children and young persons sentenced to a detention and training order or a supervision order;

{i)  the post-release supervision of children and young persons under supervision