Divert Strategy Group ADSW contribution via Glasgow Social Work Services Social Work contribution to partnership approach • Karen Dyball Social Work Service Manager • 25 years in Glasgow • Criminal Justice and Children and Family locality • Integration and Service Development Manager • Experience in partnership working Divert , current Glasgow Context • • • • One Glasgow Single outcome agreement EEI Youth Justice Strategy, building on existing successful interventions • Youth Justice forum • Significant investment to evidence based practice to improve outcomes Principles of Girfec • Commitment to Getting It Right For Every Child • National Practice Model • Partnership working • SOC focus however every young person involved has a child’s plan • Vulnerability to organised crime National Practice Model SideStep , identification and intervention • Sidestep initiative • Multiagency response to target the most difficult to reach young people • Young people who are involved or on the periphery of organised crime • Consistent with the strategic approach across Scotland to reduce offending in young people Strategic and Operational approach • • • • Young people identified for service Genograms provided by police Young person in secure included Small number of young people who were hard to reach despite investment in services • High cost implications often with poor outcomes SideStep Intervention: • Each young person has an identified mentor • Mentors can show young people alternatives to their lifestyle • Education and employment opportunities • Diversion from secure and young offenders accommodation • Potential for follow up when intervention is not successful first time Learning • Developed positive working relationships , police /social work in the locality wider advantages • Developed links in an employability context, sidestep offers training and employment for the hardest to reach groups • Learning in a wider context? Developing tools to identify Vulnerability Factors • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • YLS Range of further factors considered /piloted Need for identity belonging Need for status Need for excitement and adventure Dominance and control Extent to which family and friends involved with SOC Extent to which the individual is at a transitional stage in life Extent to which they are subject to group influence, including gangs Mental health issues Drug alcohol and other dependency Financial/employment situation Extent to which the person can dehumanise others Criminal history Attitudes towards offending Attitude to authority Willingness to cause harm Extremist attitudes/apparent radicalisation Individual knowledge , skills and competencies Access to networks, funding or specialist skills Evaluation and next steps • SideStep will be evaluated and we will be able to cascade the learning • We are working together to develop a tool to identify young people who have become involved in organised crime • It has” made us ask the questions” at an earlier stage to allow us to provide support and interventions for the highest risk group avoiding the potential for high cost interventions • Roll out across Scotland potential