Dare to Care: Representing care experienced young people

13 September 2023

Dare to Care: Representing care experienced young people

Care system

Open guide

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

practitioners, young adults

Effective practice guide: working with young adults

January 2024

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

January 2024

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