The Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme is a rigorous community-based alternative to custody. It is aimed at the most serious and prolific young offenders, the small group (3%) who commit a quarter of all youth crime. It involves working with YOT Practitioners for a minimum of 25 hours spread over 7 days each week. The programme consists of five core elements; education, training & employment, offending behaviour work, family work, interpersonal skills and restorative justice.

Restorative Justice or ‘reparation’ is where a young person has to do something to ‘pay back’ to the community for the crimes they have committed.