East Herts Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre 1 Manager 2 Operations Managers 2 Senior Practitioners 3 Social Workers 1 Probation Officer 3 Police Officers 1 Education Worker 5 Professional Assistants 1 Drugs Worker 1 Mental Health Worker 1 Connexions Worker 3 Support Workers 2 Full-time Secretaries 2 Part-time Secretaries

Current cases as of 1 st August 2007 Court Orders 189 Final warnings 10 Area covered by East Herts YOT East Herts B/C Welwyn and Hatfield B/C Broxbourne B/C

Partnerships Prolific and priority offenders MAPP Joint Action Group CDRP Anti-Social Behaviour Group Acceptable Behaviour Contracts Safeguarding Board Reparation Housing and Housing Associations. Police Intelligence. Staffing Youth Courts Appropriate Adults Referral Order Panels Parenting East Herts YOT Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre

Priorities Antisocial behaviour Supervising those on court orders Managing serious offenders Consistency to final warnings Preventing offending or re- offending Working with victims of crime

ISSP Persistent offenders 25 hours of activity per week Reporting to police at weekends Electronic surveillance Custody if breach East Herts YOT Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre YISP Preventative work with young people who are in danger of offending Multi-agency Panels to set work to help family Chaired by CSF Manager

Jeans project Counterfeit jeans come from a warehouse, and the young people remove the studs and buttons from them, thereby removing the identity. They then add a new identity and despatch the jeans back to the warehouse, who then send them to the Children Society Charity shops. Woodwork project Timber is sourced from local companies, and a small group of young people use this to make garden planters and bird boxes and fences. These are then given to charities such as the Isabella Hospice or the Children’s Society The Old Fire Station, Ware, where the jeans and woodwork projects take place East Herts YOT Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre

The reparation team helped improve the Sensory Garden in the Old Priory, Ware. The Sensory Garden is a small, enclosed section in the Old Priory, designed for the visually impaired, and including plants and flowers with a particularly strong smell. We work with the PDSA in Waltham Cross in their charity shop. Each person has an induction and training so that they can work in each of the four areas, which are: Retail / Sorting /Seasonal /Collection. Sensory Garden in the Old Priory, Ware. PDSA Monkey sanctuary This sanctuary is run by someone who has been a victim of crime in the past. Small groups of young people help with gardening and general maintenance. East Herts YOT Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre

East Herts YOT Downs Farm Centre Manager Derek Eyre