CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and our 2016/2017 Workplan details the work we will deliver funded by this grant. For 2016/17 our work will focus on the three themes identified in the youth justice strategy ‘Preventing Offending: Getting it Right for Children and Young People’ – Advancing the Whole System Approach; Improving Life Chances; and Developing Capacity and Improvement.
The workplan has been informed by the stakeholder research exercise we undertook in 2014/15 about practice needs. We have also consulted on the plan with the Youth Justice Improvement Board, the three implementation groups tasked with progressing actions in the strategy, the National Youth Justice Advisory Group and with the Scottish Government Youth Justice team.