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About Skills for Justice
The justice system touches everybody's lives. We all want to feel safe,
and we all want to be treated fairly.
Over half a million people work within the UK justice system. Skills for
Justice is responsible for making sure that those people have the right
skills to do their job, helping to create a safer society for all.
Skills for Justice is the sector skills council covering all employers,
employees and volunteers working in the UK justice system.
Sector skills councils (SSCs) are independent, UK-wide organisations
licensed by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in
consultation with Ministers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to
tackle the skills and productivity needs of their sector throughout the
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About the justice sector
More than 460,000 people are directly involved in delivering Justice, as
employees or as volunteers (there are estimated to be at least 80,000
volunteers, including lay magistrates, police special constables and
volunteers working with victims and witnesses).
The justice sector is complex and varied. What does it cover?
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Community safety and crime
prevention
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Preventing offending and
re-offending
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Maintaining law and order
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Preventing and detecting
crime
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Reassuring and supporting
communities
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Court management and
administration
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Prosecution of suspected
offenders
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Supervision of offenders in
the community
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Rehabilitation of offenders
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Services for victims,
survivors and witnesses
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The judiciary and
magistracy
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Secure and safe detention
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Secure escorting
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Electronic monitoring
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A wide range of
organisations make up the Justice sector:
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Police
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Prisons and other secure
detention
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Probation
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Criminal Justice Social
Work
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Courts
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Prosecution services
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Voluntary sector agencies
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Private sector companies
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Careers in UK justice
A career in the justice sector can be satisfying and rewarding, as well as
being demanding and varied. Depending on your role, no two days are likely
to be the same, and you can derive an enormous sense of personal
achievement from knowing that your job is helping to keep society safe.
There are so many roles within the justice sector, it would be impossible
to list all of them here. They range from police dog handler to high court
judge. From prison officer to drugs and alcohol worker. From crime scene
investigator to probation officer. Well, you get the picture.
The following websites will help you in your search for a career in the
justice sector:
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Criminal Justice System
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UK Police Service
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National Probation Service
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Crown Prosecution Service
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Home Office
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HM Prison Service
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HM Courts Service
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Department for
Constitutional Affairs
Volunteering
Contact Us
For further information about Skills for Justice, or the Justice sector in
general, please get in touch with us at:
9-11 Riverside Court
Don Road
Sheffield
S9 2TJ
Tel: 0114 261 1499
Fax: 0114 261 1499
Email:
info@skillsforjustice.com
Web:
www.skillsforjustice.com
Useful links
Criminal Justice System -
www.cjsonline.org.uk
Sector Skills Development Agency -
www.ssda.org.uk
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Case study
At 12 years old Dominic Edgell was willing to tackle any task at school as
long as it involved avoiding maths lessons.
So when given the choice between learning long division or getting
involved in a pilot project to counsel his fellow pupils he was out the
classroom within seconds.
Now seven years later Dominic of Swansea still admits not being passionate
about maths but thanks to getting involved in a peer counselling project
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"It just all went from a day in maths class at school. We had one
presentation about working with pupils in different schools and
establishing relationships to improve integration from primary to
comprehensive schools and then I just started getting involved in more and
more projects with young people."
Dominic joined the Youth Offending Team (YOT) in Swansea in 2003
co-ordinating youth action projects. He embarked on a Modern
Apprenticeship course in Youth Justice in September following YOT and
Gorseinon College coming together to be the first organisations in Wales
to provide the course.
The Learning and Skills Council in England and ELWa in Wales launched
Modern Apprenticeships about 10 years ago and there are now more than
14,000 young people and adults training in different occupations through
the programme.
The Modern Apprenticeship in Youth Justice is just one part of The
Community Justice (Advanced) Modern Apprenticeship scheme that was
approved in 2001. The Community Justice National Training Organisation (CJNTO)
is one of the three national training organisations that came together to
form Skills for Justice, developed the scheme.
West Yorkshire was the first place to pilot The Community Justice
(Advanced) Modern Apprenticeship scheme in July 2002 with 14 apprentices
placed in Youth Offending Teams. The Youth Justice Board helped support
CJNTO roll out the scheme across England and Wales.
Maureen Davies, Wales Implementation officer at Skills for Justice, who
oversees the Modern Apprenticeship scheme, said: "The Modern
Apprenticeship scheme offers a national recognised qualification which
students can take anywhere with them, benefiting them for the future."
Dominic is one of eight people from YOT in Swansea who attend Gorseinon
College one day a week.
As a member of the Youth Parliament in Wales who at 14 years old already
had two Level 2 NVQs in Customer Service and Team Skills under his belt,
Dominic is a keen student.
He said: "The skills that I have developed are now being recognised by a
national qualification that I can use wherever and whenever I choose in
the future. Friends have said they don't know why you I would want to do
it because its bad pay, but I tell them that in 18 months time I will have
a qualification that I can use to get into a university or follow my
ambitions to continue doing youth work or even go into PR or event
management.
"This qualification opens up a lot more doors for me,"
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