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Background:

The Cabinet agreed to accept this report as urgent to ensure that it could consider the outcome of the HMIP Inspection at the earliest opportunity.

This report provided details of the outcome of the HMIP inspection of the Youth Offending Team (YOT), which took place during 24 to 28 February 2020, and was published on 4 June 2020. Overall, Medway YOT had been rated as: ‘Requires improvement’. This rating had been determined by HMIP following their assessment of the YOT in three specific areas of its work, referred to as ‘domains’. Although Medway was rated “requires improvement”, based on the inspection framework and scoring mechanism, it was only one point away from a ‘good’ judgement

The report stated that there were 12 ‘standards’ shared across the domains. Each standard reflected a specific evidence based element of YOT work underpinned by existing models or particular frameworks that should inform the work of the YOT and wider partnership. They were designed to drive improvements in the quality of work with children and young people who had offended. An Improvement Plan which responded to the inspection, was set out in Appendix B to the report.

Reasons:

To formally notify the Cabinet of the outcome of the inspection and to show Medway’s commitment to responding to the inspection’s findings.