Youth Offending Team
The Youth Offending Team (YOT) brings together workers from children's services, Sussex Police, the probation service, the NHS and the voluntary sector. Our aim is to prevent children and young people aged 10–17 from offending.
What do we do?
We assess every young person who is referred to us using the ASSET form, which is a standard procedure for every YOT in England and Wales.
It identifies the specific problems that make the young person offend as well as measuring the risk they pose to others.
Supervising sentences
We write pre-sentence reports to help courts decide what sentence to impose. YOT workers then supervises young offenders.
They then supervise young offenders, whether they receive a community sentence (such as a referral, reparation, action plan or supervision order) or a custodial sentence.
Preventing youth crime In East Sussex
We have worked with key organisations in East Sussex to develop a strategy to:
- help prevent children and young people from becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour
- help change the behaviour of those young people who have offended, and
- prevent young people from being victims of crime.
Download the East Sussex Youth Crime Prevention Strategy 2009–2012 from Czone.
For more information contact the Community Safety Team.
Monitoring our performance
In October 2007 an independent inspection of our work was made by HM Inspectorate of Probation. You can download this report from their website:
In March 2007 a Project Board of councillors and the Sussex Police Authority reported on our work:
Contact the Youth Offending Team
For more information, please contact your nearest YOT team.
