The Trust was set up in 1994 with funding from the Home Office. Its role was to act as a catalyst in bringing agencies together to tackle youth offending.

Today, the Trust assists partner agencies across Greater Manchester to find just and effective solutions to the reduction and long term prevention of youth crime. We do this by studying the evidence of what is effective and applying this wherever possible to current debate, current work and the development of initiatives.

Our work falls into one of 3 categories:

Information
Gathering information, researching a topic or trend, evaluating practice, or recording anecdotal evidence.

Facilitation
Understanding how agencies work together and creating the means for this to happen. This is done by providing secretariat and policy development to working groups such as the Youth Offending Team Managers across Greater Manchester; helping to co-ordinate bids; or simply putting the right people in touch with each other.

Innovation
Achieving crime reduction and prevention though sharing best practice or developing new ways of working. Examples of this include the ‘Whats Working’ Group or the Family Group Meetings project hosted by the Trust.

Central to all of these 3 areas is the need for Communication. The Trust acts as a focal point in the region for finding out what is happening and letting people know about it.

Youth Justice Trust
4th Floor. Cheetwood House
21 Newton St.
Manchester.
M1 1FZ.

Tel: 0161 233 6800
Fax: 0161 233 6801