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The Child First strategy implementation project – translating strategy into practice

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posted on 2024-01-04, 14:05 authored by Stephen CaseStephen Case, Ann BrowningAnn Browning, Kathy Hampson
The ‘Child First’ guiding principle for practice in the Youth Justice System of England and Wales has a growing international evidence-base and is fully embedded in policy/strategy, yet remains underdeveloped in consistent, coherent practice across local agencies and areas. This raises the potential for a policy–strategy practice implementation gap. Focus-group consultations ( n = 11) with professional stakeholder groups (community, custody, strategy, inspectorate, and research) explored perceptions of the practice challenges to understanding, implementing and supporting Child First. Qualitative analysis identified child-centrism, professional relationships and cognisance as pivotal features of the effective realisation of Child First in practice.

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Loughborough University Enterprise Project Fund

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  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

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Youth Justice

Publisher

Sage

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Author(s)

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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

Publication date

2023-08-30

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

1473-2254

eISSN

1747-6283

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Stephen Case. Deposit date: 22 December 2023

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