Sunderland Youth Offending Service offers a number of services. These have been outlined below:

• Preventative Services: Sunderland Youth Offending Service works with young people who are at risk of offending. We work with a range of partnerships including Children Fund, and schemes including the Youth Inclusion, and Positive Futures.
  
  
• Pre-court Services: This involves working with young people who have offended for the first and second time (Reprimand and Final Warning).
  
  
• Court Services: There are a number of court services which include Appropriate adult services (at police stations), preparation of pre-sentence reports, direct support to young people at court, Bail Supervision & Support, Remand Management.
  
  
• Supervision in the Community: When a young person receives a community based court order, we supervise them. This involves initial assessment (ASSET) and specialist risk assessment in accordance to need. We also prepare plans of work to prevent re-offending. Where required we also provide specialist support including Mental Health, Education, Housing, Substance Misuse, Restorative Justice, Offending Behaviour Programmes, and Mentoring. Sunderland Youth Offending Service also offers support to parents, including intensive Parenting Programmes by order of the court. We also provide Intensive Supervision. Surveillance (ISSP) for high risk, persistent and prolific offenders.
  
  
• Custodial Services: We work with young people to support young people serving custodial sentences. This includes sentence planning to ensuring a seamless transition into the community for community supervision elements of DTO sentences.