Buckinghamshire Youth Justice Strategic Plan 2026 to 2029
Section 1: Governance, leadership, and partnership arrangements
Buckinghamshire YJST sits within Buckinghamshire Council’s Children’s Services directorate. The service is overseen by a Service Director.
In 2025/26, the Service had an overall budget of £1,703,596.
The YJST Partnership Board has representatives from statutory and voluntary partners, including:
- Police
- Education
- Social Care
- Health,
- Probation
- Community Safety
- Community Victim Service
- Missing Service
- Substance Misuse
- A Youth Support charity.
Buckinghamshire YJST is a multi-agency service with secondments/posts provided by:
- Police
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Integrated Care Board.
Currently, there is no seconded Probation Officer with the Thames Valley Probation Service providing funding for a 0.5 practitioner post.
A full breakdown of the Service structure can be found in Appendix A.
