Speech and Language Therapy in Youth Offending work.

The Youth Offending Team in bolton is currently benefiting from the services of a speech and language therapist, employed via the local NHS Trust. Ian Warriner works with young offenders, an estimated 60% of whom have communication difficulties, making it difficult for them to work with the services which aim to keep them from reoffending. Read all about it in the Guardian, 7 February 2012.

New Scottish Executive E-documents

Link to the documents below have also been added to our Suprimo catalogue - just search for them in the usual way:
McVie, s. (2010). Gang membership and knife carrying: findings from the edinburgh study of youth transitions and crime. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Social Work Inspection Agency. (2010). Guide to leadership: taking a closer look at leadership in social work services.

Knife carrying in Scotland

A new research report, Bannister, J, et al, (2010). Troublesome youth groups, gangs and knife carrying in Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research, provides new evidence on youth gangs, the prevalence of knife carrying and gang related violence, and offers recommendations for strategies to reduce such offending, based on evidence collected in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and West Dunbartonshire.