Youth Justice Board (Hansard, 4 November 1998)

§ Mr. Straw

The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, established under section 41 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, came into operation on 30 September 1998.

The members of the Board are:

Lord Warner of Brockley (Chair)
Mr. Rob Allen, Director of Research and Development, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
Mr. Jonathan Black, Clerk to the Justices, North East and North West Hampshire
Mr. Cedric Fullwood, lately Chief Probation Officer, Greater Manchester
Ms Joyce Moseley, formerly a Director of Social Services
Dr. Theodore Mutale, consultant child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist
Ms Janet Paraskeva JP, Director for England National Lottery Charities Board
Mr. Charles Pollard, Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police
Mrs. Annabella Scott JP, Inner London youth panel
Mr. Martin Stephenson, Chief Executive, INCLUDE
Ms Lorna Whyte, a member of the Police Complaints Authority
Mr. Charles Wilson, lately Managing Director of the Mirror Group of newspapers.

The Board is responsible for monitoring the operation and performance of the youth justice system as a whole, and advising the Government on this and on the drawing up of standards for the local provision of youth justice services and for custodial regimes for juveniles. The Board will also identify and promote good practice in the provision of youth justice services and in work to prevent youth offending, which will help deliver the Government's programme of reform of the youth justice system.

In support of this work, the Government are providing £85 million over three years from April 1999 for a youth justice development fund, which will be used to support the development by local authorities and other bodies, including in the voluntary sector, of programmes and projects, including bail support, to prevent or tackle offending by children and young people.