Contact with the youth justice service

Find out about how we can support you through contact with the youth justice service.

Overview

Use this guide to help understand the process if you have contact with the youth justice service.

We can work with you in a supportive, non-judgemental way to give you the best chance to avoid offending. We’ll do everything we can to help you change direction.

We can support you if you:

  • have a history of or current offending behaviour
  • are at risk of falling into offending behaviour
  • are at risk of criminal exploitation

It's important for you to know that if you decide to share information with us about a serious crime, we must ask you to declare it to the police yourself. If you do not, we must legally tell them ourselves.

If you need to find a lawyer, you can search on the law society website.

If you want to speak to the police, and it's not an emergency, you can phone them on 101.