Young People’s Youth Justice Plan 2025 – 2026
Our plan and why it’s important
This is a summary of North Lincolnshire Youth Justice Partnership Plan for 2025-2026. The summary has been written for you to let you know more about our big priorities over the next year or so. Thank you to the volunteers who helped us write this plan.
What is the Youth Justice Plan?
The Youth Justice Plan is something that we review every year to keep it up-to-date and relevant for North Lincolnshire. The plan is for you and anyone else who wants to know more about our plans to make sure our youth justice offer is the best it can be.
The plan covers:
- what’s important in the local area (our priorities)
- how things are paid for (funding)
- what we do (our offer)
- how we do things (working together)
- how well do we do things.
What is the Youth Justice Partnership?
The Youth Justice Partnership (or YJP for short) work with young people aged 10 to 18 years to help prevent them from becoming involved with the law.
The YJP looks at ways we can try to stop young people getting involved in anti-social behaviour and crime. If you do get into trouble, the YJP looks at the best ways to support you to stop doing it again (re-offending). We work really hard to make sure young people don’t go into custody unless its the only option.
We work with you to look at what you like and don’t like and how we can build on this to try and avoid you getting in trouble again. This might be through getting involved in different groups and activities as well as in education, training and employment. We care, we will be open and honest and will never judge you.
We do the best we can to keep you out of trouble and lead a happy and healthy life. We work with you and your family to understand what’s going on in your life and with working with different organisations we want to keep you and others safe.
Working with the YJP
This is a short film about what you can expect and the difference the YJP has made to other young peoples lives. Young people helped make the film and it is in their words, with their music, voice overs and design.
How the plan was developed
The YJP plan is based on what people in North Lincolnshire have told us is important to them about youth justice.
The ideas and things to do included in the plan have come from different people including:
- children and young people
- families
- people working in youth justice.
When putting together the plan we have also looked at things we know have worked well (and we want to keep doing), things we want to do differently as well as some “must do’s” from the government.
The plan is there to help us make sure that we support give you and your families is the the best it can be.
Our priorities
Our integrated youth offer
We want to put children and young people first and to make sure that our youth offer works for you. This might be making sure help is from the right person, at the right time and is delivered in the best way for you.
We try hard to keep you involved in decisions and to be led by your views and experiences. This might be about your help and support or about bigger changes for other young people in North Lincolnshire.
Your voice is strong, we listen and we act!
#yourvoicematters
Priority areas for 2025-2026
Through partnership co-production and in considering the context of local need we have agreed our priorities and reaffirmed our commitment to the Child First Principle. Our local key priorities for 2025/26 are:
- Priority 1: Prevention and diversion
- Priority 2: Improve our offer to victims
- Priority 3: Improve outcomes by meeting individual needs
- Priority 4: Quality interventions to reduce re-offending.
Each priority will include consideration of race, disproportionality, engagement in education and the child first principle.
Our 2025-2026
Together with you, your families and other people working in youth justice we have achieved a lot over the last 18 months.
Thank you for reading this summary
Please let us know what you think; contact us:
Email: yjp.admin@northlincs.gov.uk
Tel: 01724 298549
