Youth Offending Teams – joint inspections
Criminal justice joint inspections
Youth Offending Teams – joint inspections
Police custody facilities – joint inspections
Youth offending teams (YOTs) are provided by local councils to work with young people that are arrested or in trouble with the police; are sentenced with a crime and have to go to court; or are convicted of a crime and sentenced. Although YOTs are separate from the police and the courts, they work closely with:
- the police;
- probation officers;
- health, housing and children’s services;
- schools and education authorities; and
- charities and the local community.
HMICFRS works with HM Inspectorate of Probation (HMI Probation) which leads a multi-agency joint inspection programme of YOTs.
Youth offending team inspections
YOT inspections fall into one of two categories:
- Full Joint Inspection: targeted inspections of YOTs that are considered to have causes of concern – only a small number of these inspections are carried out each year.
- Short Quality Screening : broader inspections focusing on YOT work at the start of the sentence and the pre-sentence report – this programme inspects approximately 20% of all YOTs per year.
HMICFRS, along with HMI Probation and other inspectorates, also contributes to the Ofsted-led joint inspection of child protection arrangements. This programme includes inspections of YOTs.
For further information on YOT inspections please visit the HMI Probation website.
Reports
2024
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Nottinghamshire – published January 2024
2023
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Hackney – published May 2023
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Suffolk – published January 2023
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Dorset – published January 2023
2022
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Cardiff – published August 2022
2021
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Cheshire – published December 2021
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Blackpool – published September 2021
2020
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Cardiff – published July 2020
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Nottingham City – published March 2020
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Bradford – published in January 2020
2019
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Croydon – published in December 2019
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Lancashire – published in July 2019
- An inspection of the youth offending services in Liverpool – published June 2019
- An inspection of youth offending services in Lambeth – published in April 2019
- An inspection of youth offending services in Western Bay – published in March 2019
- An inspection of youth offending services in Manchester – published in February 2019
2018
- An inspection of youth offending services in Barking and Dagenham – published in December 2018
2017
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Cwm Taf – published in July 2017
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Bromley – published June 2017
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Cambridgeshire – published February 2017
2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Lewisham – published December 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Southwark – published November 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Enfield – published October 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Dorset – published October 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in North Lincolnshire – published October 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Flintshire – published September 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Cumbria – published August 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Wokingham – published August 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Hackney – published August 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Barnsley – published August 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Coventry – published July 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Nottingham City – published July 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Blackburn with Darwen – published July 2016
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Northumberland – published July 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Newcastle – published July 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Newport – published June 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Staffordshire – published June 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicester City – published May 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Cardiff – published May 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Wolverhampton – published February 2016
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Islington – published January 2016
2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Calderdale – published December 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Cheshire West, Halton and Warrington – published December 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Western Bay – published December 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Greenwich – published November 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Knowsley – published November 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in East Sussex – published October 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in London Borough of Ealing – published October 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in South Gloucestershire – published October 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Doncaster – published September 2015
- Full Joint Reinspection of Youth Offending Work in Portsmouth – published September 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Ceredigion – published August 2015
- Sgrinio Ansawdd Byr o waith troseddwyr ifanc yng Ngheredigion – published August 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in North Tyneside – published August 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Havering – published August 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Monmouthshire and Torfaen – published July 2015
- Sgrinio Ansawdd Byr gwaith gyda throseddwyr ifanc yn Sir Fynwy a Thorfaen – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Plymouth – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Devon – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Haringey – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in St Helens – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Buckinghamshire – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Bexley – published July 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Leeds – published June 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Swindon – published June 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Nottinghamshire – published June 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Pembrokeshire – published June 2015
- Sgrinio Ansawdd Byr o waith troseddu ieuenctid yn Sir Benfro – published June 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Thurrock – published May 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Bromley – published May 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in West Mercia – published May 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Slough – published May 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in the London Borough of Waltham Forest – published May 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Carmarthenshire – published March 2015
- Adroddiad ar Sgrinio Ansawdd Byr gwaith troseddau ieuenctid yn Sir Gaerfyrddin – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of Youth Offending Work in Stockport – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of Youth Offending Work in Northamptonshire – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in West Berkshire – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Oxfordshire – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Bristol – published March 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Redbridge – published February 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Trafford – published February 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in Bolton – published January 2015
- Short Quality Screening of youth offending work in South Tyneside – published January 2015
- Full Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Lambeth – published January 2015
For older YOT inspection reports please visit the HMI Probation website.
Please note: In July 2017 HMIC took on responsibility for fire & rescue service inspections and was renamed HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). Inspections carried out before July 2017 may continue to refer to HMIC.