Buckinghamshire Youth Justice Plan 2025 to 2026

What we have done, what has happened as a result, and what we will do next

• Shared a quarterly Education Impact report with the Board to enable strategic oversight of the needs of children open to the service
• Established the Aylesbury YJST office as an Exam site
• Created education pathway plans for children who are 16 and over, making choices about their future
• Completed an audit of children not in mainstream education
• Worked in partnership with seconded Speech and Language Therapists to enhance the screening, assessment and support of children with specific needs
• Hosted monthly partnership meetings focused on children who have special educational needs, those absent from school and those who are not in education, training or employment

• Funding identified for a 0.5 Education Support Worker to support the existing Education Worker
• Helping children identify suitable and sustainable future plans through the use of Pathway Plans
• Empowered children to access services in a way that meets their needs through communication passports, developed by the Speech and Language therapists
• Increased children discussed at the NEET Solutions panel, enhancing their access and choice of provision

• Roll out the AQA framework to allow children an opportunity to develop their employability skills
• Deliver targeted intervention to those post-16 without an education, training or employment placement
• Collaborate with Education to carry out an audit of children’s education experiences before their involvement with the YJST