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Catch22’s justice services are innovating, revitalising and reforming the delivery of rehabilitation and victims services in prison and the community “There is no doubt that the past year has seen many challenges, on a global, national and criminal justice sector level. Catch22 and our Justice Hub has throughout this time remained solution focused, adaptable and committed to providing quality commissioned services, supporting our service users and contributing to making our communities safer. Within the Catch22 Justice footprint, we are proud of the evidenced impact of our work across both victim, community and offender focused services. We have navigated the complexities…

In today’s blog, we interview James Willott, Manager of our Bristol Reparation Service, about his role. We discuss the importance of restorative justice with young offenders and how reparation positively impacted one young offender’s life. Can you tell us about a bit about yourself and the Bristol Reparation Service? Hi, my name is James and I’m the manager for the Bristol Reparation Team. When I’m not working I am running around with my two children or still trying to play football! The Bristol Reparation Service is commissioned by the Bristol Youth Offending Team (YOT) to work with young people, aged…

Catch22 provides a Reparation and Unpaid Work Service to the Bristol Youth Offending Team (YOT), working with young people aged 10-18 for Reparation and 16-17 for Unpaid Work. We cover The City of Bristol and surrounding areas, working with partner agencies and the local authority. Our aim is for the young people we support to take ownership of their actions and be given space to reflect and discuss how to move forward positively. We work restoratively with young people to complete the work and support local communities, to give something back. Young people will learn employability, problem solving and practical…

…Bristol Reparation & Unpaid Work Service delivers a range of activities where physical work is undertaken in the community, from time to time there is the possibility of injuries occurring. We need to have appropriate contact details of all participants, as well as parents/guardian contacts too in case parental contact is needed due to injury or illness of the participant. Reparation referrals In order to support a young person completing their reparation hours in the best way possible, it is essential that we understand the referrer’s concerns, any risks, offence details and have some background about your situation, so that…

Working with the Bristol Youth Offending Team (YOT), Catch22 delivers reparation work in Bristol and the surrounding areas, for 10-18 year olds who have a court order. Reparation activities are intended to ‘repair the harm’ caused by the young person with a conviction, by having them something back to their community. This could be by doing something to directly benefit the victim, or indirectly through the completion of unpaid work in their community. We are looking for volunteers to help us to deliver our work more widely and enable these young people to reflect on their order and consider positive…