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This protocol sets out the roles and responsibilities of each group involved in the care of looked-after children and care leavers in reducing their involvement in crime – because each and every one of these groups has their part to play in protecting these vulnerable young people from a life of crime. This includes children’s home carers, foster parents, police officers, the Crown Prosecution Service, health services and local authorities.
The organisations who have signed up to this protocol have agreed to the following key principles:
• Diversion from the criminal justice system should be at the heart of any response to offending behaviour
• Listening to and learning from children and young people
• Agencies should be asking themselves ‘would this response be good enough for my child?’
Through this protocol, we will be able to work better together, across our city, to reduce the number of young people who have been within the care system from falling into a life of crime, and instead divert them instead towards a more positive future.
Reducing criminalisation of looked-after children and care leavers - a protocol for London
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