Family Group Conferences in Youth Justice (1998)

The Family Group Conference model is a way of empowering the extended family network to make plans to meet the needs of members who are identified as having difficulties.

In youth justice work, the Family Group Conference model enables the young offender and his or her family to hear information from the police, other services and the victim, and to make plans both to address reparation for the offence and to prevent further offences.

These findings are based on a study of two pilot projects run by NCH Action for Children; the Bridges project in Sheffield and the KF-STOP project in Kirklees. The study set out to consider issues of implementation, process and outcome over the year 1997-1998, the first year of both projects.

These findings may be downloaded as a PDF document.

Children & Families Welfare Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.

The research on which this publication is based was funded by the Department of Health: the views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily the Department of Health.