In keeping with the YJB's Key Effective Practice guidelines, the training offers Youth Offending teams both an intensive, whole-team resource including ISSP - The Prevention & Intervention Programme and short-term training package - A Solution Focused Approach 1/2/3 day courses providing teams with a tool for change when working with young people who offend and their families. Both approaches are fit for purpose for Statutory orders including Parenting Orders.

A new training programme Solution Focused Youth Panel Meetings for Youth Panel Members is available over a period of 1, 2 or 3 days.

The language of the approach is useful in Youth Panel settings because it offers the victim an opportunity to take real steps towards emotional recovery and the offender to recognise what change needs to happen in small, realistic ways and how they will achieve that change in order to reduce the risk of recidivism.

The training includes positive ways of engaging the client’s families to play a part in helping to make real changes. The ethos of the Approach is to work collaboratively with the cultural, socio-economic and individual family culture of the client.

The result is that families feel empowered and can work within a statutory intervention that recognises, respects and uses the family’s sense of competency and control over their own lives while maintaining the unique culture of each family unit.

Because its is a non-damaging model, the particular language and time-distortion techniques allows workers and volunteers from all social care fields to use the approach.

• The Paradox of the Parenting Order - An article by Eileen Murphy published by the British Juvenile & Family Court Society (now ChildrenLawUK)
  
• Youth Justice Board - An excerpt from a report published by the Youth Justice Board on Parenting in the Youth Justice Context