Our services
Youth Justice
About the service
Our Youth Justice team looks after and promotes the health needs of children and young people aged 10 to 18+ who become involved in the criminal justice system in Bradford district and Airedale. Our team of nurses:
- offer holistic health assessments to fully assess a young person’s health needs.
- design individualised health care plans
- offer hearing tests and provide support with receiving routine childhood immunisations
- give advice on sleep, exercise, healthy eating, alcohol, drugs, stopping smoking, safe sex and more
- provide support with bereavement, self-harm, depression, anxiety, gender, orientation and sexual attraction
- have a named Youth Justice team nurse to talk about any health issues or worries
- provide direct fast access to the young people’s drug and alcohol team and child and adolescent mental health service as required
- refer children and young people to specialist health care services, mental health and advocacy services as required.
How to access
Once a young person becomes involved with the Youth Justice team, either voluntarily or through a statutory order, the Youth Justice team will refer them to our nursing team.
Contact
You can contact the Youth Justice team on 01274 221002 or by emailing CIC@bdct.nhs.uk.