Birmingham Youth Offending Service becomes Birmingham Youth Justice Service
The Birmingham Youth Offending Service is now the Birmingham Youth Justice Service following overwhelming support from both our staff and the children we work with...
In line with the national approach to developing a child-first focus of reducing the stigma for children who have come in to contact with the criminal justice system, we have agreed to move away from the term Youth Offending Service.
Instead, in Birmingham, we have sought to identify a new name that captured the positive aspirations of our service.
The overwhelming preference from both our staff, and the children we spoke to in our focus groups, was to change our name to the Birmingham Youth Justice Service. This brings us in line with the majority of teams across the country who have dropped the term 'Offending' for the word 'Justice'.
This is justice prevailing both for our children and the victims we support.
The proposal to change our name was agreed at the Birmingham Youth Offending Service Partnership Board in June 2024. The official date of the name change took effect from Sunday 1 December 2024.