Decision details
Youth Justice plan
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The Local Authority has a statutory duty, in consultation with the partner agencies, to produce an annual Youth Justice Plan. The Plan sets out how youth justice services are to be composed and funded, how they will operate and what functions they will carry out to prevent youth offending and re-offending across Bath and North East Somerset.
Decision:
RESOLVED (unanimously):
1)
The Cabinet recommends adoption of the Youth Justice Plan as part
of the Council’s Policy and Budget Framework and notes this
can be accommodated within the Council budget;
2) Cabinet recommends the Youth Justice Plan to Council as fulfilling the requirements of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and can be submitted to the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.
Reasons for the decision:
The Local Authority has a statutory duty, in consultation with the partner agencies, to produce an annual Youth Justice Plan. The Plan sets out how youth justice services are to be composed and funded, how they will operate and what functions they will carry out to prevent youth offending and re-offending across Bath and North East Somerset.
Alternative options considered:
None.
Report author: Sally Churchyard
Publication date: 09/07/2015
Date of decision: 08/07/2015
Decided at meeting: 08/07/2015 - Cabinet
Effective from: 17/07/2015
Accompanying Documents:
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