Criminal justice

Cordis Bright has particularly strong expertise around criminal justice and youth offending.

We work with all agencies involved in the criminal justice field, such as health, probation, police, education and social services. Our clients include:

• Home Office and Ministry of Justice
• Youth Justice Board
• Youth Offending Teams
• Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
• Local authorities, including projects designed to prevent violent extremism, prevent offending and promote youth inclusion

Our highly-skilled team includes people with previous experience of:

• Inspection of youth offending teams and probation, with former inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Probation and the Social Services Inspectorate
• Management and practice within youth offending teams, the probation service and the secure estate
• Roles within children's safeguarding and social work
• Academic research in criminology and youth justice

We offer a wide range of support to clients in these fields including:

• Performance improvement, e.g. reviews of youth offending teams, coaching and mentoring of individual staff, case file audits, and capacity building to strengthen teams
• Pre- and post-inspection support, e.g. advice on the inspection process focussing on the Core Case Inspection programme and thematic inspections, case file audits, 'mock interviews', and advice and support on areas for improvement
• Leadership and management, e.g. advice on performance management, support on supervision arrangements, help to maximise the performance of individuals and teams, and support to management boards
• Safeguarding, diversity, risk and public protection, e.g. off-the-shelf training or tailored packages of support for individuals or teams. Our work is focused on fulfilling national standards and promoting best practice.
• Evaluation and research, e.g. process, impact and outcome evaluations, service reviews and research on best practice

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