East Herts

Downs Farm Centre

Manager Derek Eyre

1 Manager2 Operations Managers2 Senior Practitioners

3 Social Workers1 Probation Officer

3 Police Officers1 Education Worker

5 Professional Assistants1 Drugs Worker

1 Mental Health Worker1 Connexions Worker

3 Support Workers2 Full-time Secretaries2 Part-time Secretaries

Current cases as of 1st August 2007

Court Orders 189

Final warnings 10

Area covered by East Herts YOT

• East Herts B/C

• Welwyn and Hatfield B/C

• Broxbourne B/C

• Partnerships• Prolific and priority offenders• MAPP• Joint Action Group• CDRP• Anti-Social Behaviour Group• Acceptable Behaviour Contracts• Safeguarding Board• Reparation• Housing and Housing Associations.• Police Intelligence.• Staffing Youth Courts• Appropriate Adults• Referral Order Panels• Parenting

East Herts YOTDowns Farm CentreManager Derek Eyre

• Priorities

• Antisocial behaviour

• Supervising those on court orders

• Managing serious offenders

• Consistency to final warnings

• Preventing offending or re-offending

• Working with victims of crime

ISSP• Persistent offenders

• 25 hours of activity per week

• Reporting to police at weekends

• Electronic surveillance

• Custody if breach

East Herts YOTDowns Farm CentreManager Derek Eyre

YISP• Preventative work with young people who are in danger of offending

• Multi-agency Panels to set work to help family

• Chaired by CSF Manager

Jeans project• Counterfeit jeans come from a warehouse,

and the young people remove the studs and buttons from them, thereby removing the identity. They then add a new identity and despatch the jeans back to the warehouse, who then send them to the Children Society Charity shops.

Woodwork project• Timber is sourced from local

companies, and a small group of young people use this to make garden planters and bird boxes and fences. These are then given to charities such as the Isabella Hospice or the Children’s Society

The Old Fire Station, Ware, where the jeans and woodwork projects take place

East Herts YOTDowns Farm CentreManager Derek Eyre

• The reparation team helped improve the Sensory Garden in the Old Priory, Ware.

• The Sensory Garden is a small, enclosed section in the Old Priory, designed for the visually impaired, and including plants and flowers with a particularly strong smell.

• We work with the PDSA in Waltham Cross in their charity shop. Each person has an induction and training so that they can work in each of the four areas, which are:

• Retail / Sorting /Seasonal /Collection.

•Sensory Garden in the Old Priory, Ware.

PDSA

Monkey sanctuaryThis sanctuary is run by someone who has been a victim of crime in the past. Small groups of young people help with gardening and general maintenance.

East Herts YOTDowns Farm CentreManager Derek Eyre

East Herts YOTDowns Farm CentreManager Derek Eyre