The Youth Offending Service will share relevant information within our statutory partner agencies (Health, Education, Children’s Social Care, Police, British Transport Police and Probation). These agencies are members of the service and with others in Waltham Forest Council when we assess that additional support is needed to prevent crime or to protect children, young people, and their families. Services might include:
- Children’s Social Care
- Youth and Family Support
- Housing Services
- Education Inclusion Services
- Housing Services
- Revenues and Benefits
In addition to sharing within the council information about children, young people, and their families to deliver best services, it may sometimes also be necessary to share information with external organisations. These organisations might include:
- Substance Misuse Services
- Courts
- Prisons, Secure Training Centres or Secure Children’s Homes
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Domestic Abuse Services
- Solicitors
Waltham Forest YOS aims to provide the best possible service to you. To achieve this, we will share information about you with other professionals we work with to:
- Get you the help and advice you might need
- Protect you and others
- We share information to tell the other professionals that we are working with you so that we can coordinate the work we do for you
- If you have fallen into trouble with the law as an adult, we may be asked to provide information to other agencies in the criminal justice system in the future. Any future request will have to show it is proportionate, relevant, and necessary for the administration of justice
- Any other information that is requested about you will only be given if you agree or if it is required by law
Information is stored in a secure and confidential manner on our database. Only authorised professionals from agencies involved with you or your family will use this information.
We are required by law to share information about you, and we do not need to get your permission to do this. Examples might be to protect you or others against risk of harm, to prevent a crime or to reduce any future offending