Action Plan Order
This is a court order that gives a young person a list of tasks to do and states that a number of appointments must be attended. This is over the course of three months and is carried out whilst working with a Youth Offending Service worker.

Anti-Bullying
The Sunderland Anti-Bullying Strategy provides support in order to help families cope with issues surrounding bullying through counselling, mediation, training and advice.

Bail Supervision
This is carried out to help ensure that the young person will come back to court for their trial or sentence. The court can put conditions on the bail to be sure of this. In serious cases, this will include ‘Bail Supervision.’ A Youth Offending Service worker will see the young person regularly to also be sure no more offences are committed and that witnesses are not interfered with.

Barnardo’s Sungate Parenting Project
Sungate is a parenting project run by Barnardo's in conjunction with the Youth Offending Service, that aims to reduce youth offending and non school attendance by, increasing parents confidence and self esteem, managing behaviour, supporting parents to gain greater control and working in co-operation with other agencies.

Comprehensive Performance Framework
The YJB’s framework incorporates a series of measures and an overall YOT performance rating is calculated based on performance against Fourteen Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), National Standards, Effective Practice and Quality Assurance (EPQA) and Recidivism (Re-offending data). Improvement on previous performance figures and timely submission of the data are also taken into account. YOTs submit quarterly and annual data to the YJB under this framework.

Detention and Training Order
This is a court order sentencing the young person to time spent in custody (prison) for a length of up to two years. It is a punishment for serious or very frequent offences and aims to protect the public from the offender’s behaviour, punish them for their offence and help correct the problems that led to offending.

Final Warning
A decision made by the police to give a young person a formal warning rather than send them to court. The police keep a record of this for five years, or until they have reached the age of 18, whichever is longer.

ISSP: Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme
The Programme seeks lasting change for young people and their families, in the belief that reduction of offending will be more successful if opportunities to overcome existing disadvantages are offered and supported. The scheme targets the most active repeat young offenders and also those who commit the most serious crimes.

OnTrack
OnTrack is a Youth Offending Service project aimed at 4-14 year olds, living in North Washington, who are vulnerable and in need. It is a government-funded project, which is made up of a number of agencies, including Social Services, Education, Health and Police. These agencies then work with young people and parents to address their needs. The overarching aim of the project is to reduce offending by combating ‘risk factors’ at an early age in children where there is an indication that they may go on to display criminal or anti-social behaviour later in life.

Phoenix Community Fire Safety Project
The Phoenix Fire Safety Project is run through Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade and the scheme provides a week of work experience with uniformed Fire Fighters. The range of activities undertaken includes classroom-based learning, health and safety, team building tasks, work experience, problem solving, equipment use and skill-based work. Young people aged 14-17 years can be referred from the Youth Offending Service by their caseworker.

Positive Futures
The Positive Futures Scheme aims to tackle social exclusion among 8-19 year olds by diverting young people from offending and substance use by encouraging participation in a wide range of sport and recreational activities.

Prevention
The aim of prevention is to engage young people’s interests, increase their knowledge and consequently divert them from offending. They can often effectively address the problems, which lie behind a young person’s troublesome behaviour, such as family problems, substance misuse and poor education attainment. Sunderland Youth Offending Service has brought together a range of existing preventative services (for example Wear Kids and the Mentoring Project) as well as developing new initiatives to develop a Preventative Strategy.

Referral Order
This is a court order normally granted in situations where it is the young person’s first appearance in court and where they have admitted the offence. The aim of the order is to help the young person to avoid offending again. The duration can vary from 3 months to 12 months as decided by the court.

Referral Order Panel
When a court administers a young person with a Referral Order, the case is referred to a Community Panel. This panel is made up of 2-3 trained members of the local community and a member of the Youth Offending Service. They meet with the young offender, their family/carers and, where appropriate, the victim of the crime will be actively encouraged to take part. The Panel, together with the young person, their family/carers and the victim, will then draw up a contract for that young person.

Rehabilitation and Aftercare Programme (RAP) scheme
The RAP scheme provides additional resources to work with young people leaving custody who have an identified substance misuse problem. The scheme commenced in early 2005, with a requirement that up to 25 hours of activity is available to each young person.

Restorative justice
The Restorative justice scheme enables young offenders to undertake a positive or constructive activity within the community under the supervision of the Youth Offending Service. It also enables young people to address offending; be aware of the consequences of their offending; and importantly, to increase awareness of the impact their behaviour has had on their families, the victim and the community.

Sessional Workers (Appropriate Adults)
The type of work that sessional workers get involved in include assisting young people at the police station as an Appropriate Adult. The Youth Offending Service advertises these opportunities routinely in local press and media.

Sunderland Volunteer Mentoring Service
The service offers vulnerable young people advice and support from an older, more experienced person, providing a protective factor against peer pressure and other pressures in the young person’s life. The Mentors within this service work with young people at all stages of the Criminal Justice System and provide a holistic approach to addressing the young person’s needs.

Supervision Order
This is a court order where appointments have to be maintained with a worker from the Youth Offending Service. The Young person is expected to meet all appointments on time and in a fit state, take part in work as required and desist from offending behaviour.

Tackle It
'Tackle IT' is a partnership initiative between Sunderland Youth Offending Service and Sunderland Premiership Football Club with the aim of tackling racism, antisocial behaviour, and bullying and promoting good citizenship through delivery within local schools.

Volunteers
There are several volunteer services at the Youth Offending Service that members of the public can be involved in. Volunteers can assist in the Sunderland Volunteer Mentoring Project, the Referral Order Panel and as Sessional Staff (Appropriate Adults).

Wear Kids
Wear Kids is a free voluntary support scheme for young people aged 8-13 and their families in Sunderland. The main aim is to help young people stay out of trouble and prevent anti social behaviour. Wear Kids work with young people to organise support and access to other services. These could include; health advice, family and parenting support, mentoring, education, local projects. A personalised plan is also developed to work with young people and support them through any difficulties.