Currently at the youth offending team, our support service includes offering a one to one support to the parents we engage with by meeting them at home on a visit or inviting them down to the YOT office when appropriate. The intervention involves working closely with families by providing skills developing resources which can be aimed at supporting parents to deal with issues around communication, boundaries and negotiations, anger management, truancy and issues around substance misuse.

Moreover, because families needs are sometimes complex, we endeavour to refer or signpost families to partner agencies that may be more suitable to assist the family with the issues presented.

In 2008 the YOT at Kirklees felt that the parenting provision should be brought in house It was felt that we could provide a more targeted service to our parents by having two part time workers who were supported by advanced practitioners. Working with parents requires a specialist approach that engages parents of young people who offend. Often there is a good deal of stigma around parents ability to manage their children when they offend.

Our workers will always make every effort to work along side them to look at ways of managing their children's behaviour. To this end we have a wide range of resources available to parents.

The three tier approach allows us to have a targeted intervention that is tailored to the needs of individuals.


The two part time YOT parenting workers are based in Dewsbury and Huddersfield offices. They are supported by two Advanced Practitioners who between them are responsible for the delivery of all parenting work in the YOT. There is a three tier approach to the work where parents receive a service.

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