 About
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The aims of SOVA Derby Community Safety
Partnership are:
- Community Mentoring - To
recruit, train and support volunteer mentors and to then match those
volunteers with young offenders referred to SOVA by the YOS. The Community
Mentoring Service provides opportunities for young people to be matched with a
trained volunteer, who acts as a role model to that young person with an aim
to reduce re-offending.
- Community Champions - To
identify, capacity build, train and support Community Champions in order to
empower them to tackle local community issues or needs. (Community Champions
are local community activists who, with the support of their communities, want
to improve local conditions.)
- Domestic Violence Volunteers -
To identify, capacity build, train and support volunteers who provide cascade
training within their local community to raise awareness of domestic violence
issues.
- Victim Liaison - This service
provides information and access to support for direct victims of youth crime,
or a relevant representative. It also provides opportunities for direct
victims or a relevant representative to have direct or indirect access to the
Restorative Justice processes used by the Youth Offending
Service.
- Anti-Social Behaviour - To
recruit, train and support volunteers to work with Women’s Work (a project
working with street sex-workers). Providing opportunities for Women’s Work
volunteers to undertake relevant training and access support, information and
guidance relating to their voluntary activity.
- Appropriate Adults - To recruit,
train, supervise and support volunteers to act as appropriate adults for young
people aged between 10 and 17 years who are held under arrest at St Mary’s
Wharf City Police Station when no parent, guardian or other adult carer is
available. This service is available 24 hours a day throughout the year. This
service also supports young people who have appeared before the Youth Courts
held on Saturday mornings and have been remanded into the care of the local
authority, or where a Court Ordered Secure Remand has been
ordered.
The project also offers an
Appropriate Adult Service for young people in care, who are
arrested and taken to the police station in the absence of a social worker,
parent or guardian. This service is funded separately, though the Children
& Young Peoples Department of Derby City Council
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