DTO Awareness – improving services to 18 year olds on Detention and Training Orders

Linda Bush

9 June 2011

Introductions

●Name

●Workplace

●Job title

●What does that mean you do?

Key Learning

● What is a Detention and Training Order?

● What is a Youth Offending Team and how does it operate?

● What are the key roles and responsibilities of workers involved in

managing DTOs?

● What are the key differences between the various custodial

establishments? How does HMP Durham differ from Wetherby YOI?

● What are the key challenges for YOTs and Secure Estate when

young people on DTOs are placed in 'Adult Secure Estate'

● What improvement and development can be made to delivering

DTOs to over 18s?

What is a Detention and Training Order?

● Where to find key information?

National Standards

Case Management Guidance

Youth Offending Team – Case Managers

● What is a Youth Offending Team and how does it operate?

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Composition of the YOTs

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What are the key roles and responsibilities of workers involved in managing DTOs?

● National Standards

● Case Management Guidance

● Prison Service instructions, orders, standards & rules

What are the key differences between HMP Durham and HMYOI Wetherby?

● Age Range

● Staffing ratio

● Regime type

● Purpose

Safeguarding agenda

● Whilst the youth justice system is concerned with protecting the

public through interventions that aim to reduce crime and manage

the young people who commit it, it also plays an important role

along with other agencies in safeguarding children and young

people.

● Working Together to Safeguard Children – March 2010

Safeguarding

Children in prison are 18 times more likely to commit suicide than their counterparts in the community.

26 September 2005

Howard League for Penal Reform

Behaviours - What People Pay Attention To In The Workplace

1. Leader attention, measurement, rewards and controls

2. Leader reaction to critical incidents

3. Leader role modelling, coaching

4. Criteria for recruitment, promotion, retirement and excommunication

5. Formal and informal socialisation

6. Recurring systems and procedures

7. Organisation design and structure

8. Design of physical space

9. Stories and myths about key people and events

10. Formal statements, charters, creeds, codes of ethics etc

Between 80-90% of behaviour is determined by the first three points

● What improvements can be made to delivering DTOs to over 18s?

How?