Guides for practitioners

Effective practice guide: working with young adults

Integrated Planning and Assessment Manual

This manual details how practitioners from prison, probation and leaving care services can work together with young men in prison with care experience to integrate the support they receive. Publisher: Innovation Unit

Supporting young adults with experience of care and custody – Handbook

Informed by the piloting of Always Hope in the West Midlands, this handbook aims to help staff in other regions implement the protocols and practices that can improve the support young adults with care experience receive in prison and on release.
Publisher: Innovation Unit

Your legal rights on remand: a guide for young adults

This guide is a starting point to explain your legal rights if you are remanded. The guide is written for remanded young adults aged 18-25. Publisher: Howard League for Penal Reform

Dare to Care: Representing care experienced young people

This guide will support criminal lawyers representing care experienced children and young adults to understand the relevant legal framework, reduce unnecessary criminalisation, and achieve better outcomes.
Publisher: Youth Justice Legal Centre
Authors: Kate Aubrey-Johnson and Dr Laura Janes

Your Guide to the Male Estate

This guide provides boys and young men moving into the adult male prison estate for the first time with advice, information and support.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors

Your guide to the care system

This guide provides young adults with advice and information to help them navigate the care system.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors

Your guide to the female estate

This advice and information guide is for girls and young women who are moving into the adult women’s estate for the first time.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors

Through the gate

This guide is for young adults leaving prison, on probation and that want some advice and information to navigate challenges in the community.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors

Young Justice Advisors: Learning from young adults, June 2022

Collaborating with young adult men and women, both in prison and community settings, this Young Justice Advisors report  explores young adults’ experiences in the criminal justice and care system. It focuses on: Race, Mental Health, Life after Prison, and the Care System and engaged with 333 young adults. The overriding themes of the report are policy and practice solutions.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors