"It was a pretty busy time, " laughed Jim, who is from north Devon and works with Barnstaple's Youth Offending Team.

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By the initiatives we are putting in, this great blanket of support through the youth offending team I think we can change, we are changing.

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Before the youth offending team, they would go to court, receive their order, come out and say to their solicitor "What did I get" and nobody would come near them.

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The Justice Committee will launch its new inquiry into Youth Justice with evidence from a phalanx of experts, and then from workers at the sharp end, from the Halton and Warrington Youth Offending Team.

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To take further the audit I'm joined from Manchester by the local GP, Dr Lawrence Addleston, here in the studio, Julie Chapman, who is the councillor on teenage pregnancy, Rita McNamara head of the youth offending team.

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Elaine Bertenshaw from Lytham St Annes who is a volunteer for Lancashire Constabulary was also appointed MBE for services to policing and the community as was Burnley's Emma Hamlen, a volunteer for the youth offending team, for services to young people in Lancashire and Jacqueline McGrew, chair of Whitebirk Residents' Association in Blackburn, for services to the community.

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