Criminal Justice

T2A Pilots

The Barrow Cadbury Trust’s Commission on Young Adults and the Criminal Justice System argued that using age as the arbitrary division between the youth and adult criminal justice systems is unwise and prevents sensible approaches to dealing with the problems that young adults face.

The Commission recommended that Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Teams should be established to take responsibility for young adults in the criminal justice system. The Barrow Cadbury Trust has taken forward this idea by establishing three pilots which will test different approaches to improving services for young adult offenders. The T2A pilots will enable interventions to be tailored to the maturity and needs of the individual, which we believe will reduce both the risk of re-offending and social exclusion.

The pilots are in Birmingham, delivered by the West Midlands Probation Service; Worcestershire, in the West Mercia region, delivered by YSS; and London, delivered by St Giles Trust. For more information on the pilots, please visit: www.t2a.org.uk/pilots