Community Support
Glasgow City Council works with families and young people where they live with the aim of:
In partnership with the new Learning Communities being established by Education Services, local Social Work offices work with young people aged eight to sixteen years who have difficulties at home and/or in school. The service provides individual and group work programmes for young people. The overall aim of the service is to support young people in their families at home.
Intensive Community Support & Young Women’s Project
Intensive Community Support aims to provide young people with a community-based alternative to a residential placement. This is done through working closely with young people who have a range of complex needs and where their families require support to avoid breakdown.
Restorative Justice
Restorative justice encourages offenders to take responsibility for repairing the harm caused by their offending.
The Glasgow Restorative Justice Service was developed to reduce the rates of offending, re-offending and the amount of low level youth crime in Glasgow through partner agencies working together.
It aims to provide an early intervention for young people under the age of 16 years who have committed offences.
There are three parts to the service:
This is organised in partnership with Strathclyde Police and the Children’s Reporter. Cautions are delivered by specially trained police officers.
This is used where there is an identifiable victim. The young person involved in the offence and those affected by that offence meet in a safe environment, supported by a specially trained member of the Restorative Justice Service team.
A four week course which allows young people to explore their behaviour and participate in opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t experience. This is delivered by partner agencies for young people who are beginning to develop a pattern of offending.
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