Youth Advocates Manual 2011

Cost: $110 (incl GST) and $10 courier cost within NZ

“Much is expected of youth advocates. I hope this manual will assist all youth advocates in their work, encourage high standards of excellence, and improve best practice throughout the country. I commend it to you. It should become the first “port-of-call” for youth advocates.” – Judge Becroft, Principal Youth Court Judge

This comprehensive manual has the following chapters:

• Appointment and review procedures for youth advocates
• Practice and procedure in the Youth Court
• The role of the youth advocate
• Developmental factors relevant to youth offenders
• Communicating with young people
• Pre- and post-court obligations on assignment
• Police interviewing of young persons and nominated persons
• Arrest procedures
• Remand, custody and bail
• Family group conferences
• Delay and abuse of process
• Dealing with the over-aged youth offender and interface with adult offenders
• Indictable offences in the Youth Court
• Sentencing
• Youth justice and care and protection: the interface
• Pacific or other ethnic origin
• Lay advocates in the Youth Court
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Youth Court appeals
• Responsibilities of youth advocates in respect of young persons in CYF residences
• Breaching sentence