Out of Court Resolution Impact Insight Creator
The YEF’s ORPIC, launched in October 2025 , is a free, anonymised tool that helps youth justice services (“YJS”) evaluate how children in their area are being diverted against the latest research and proven practice, and turn that picture into action. It is designed to be used alongside YEF's Diversion Practice Guidance (co-authored with the Centre for Justice Innovation) (the “Guidance”), which brings together the best global evidence on effective diversion for children .
Details
The ORPIC intends to identify(and, in turn, address) variation in diversion practice in England and Wales in a fair, comparable and consistent way using information that the Guidance already expects YJS to collect and analyse (for example, the types of offences children are committing locally, the characteristics of the children involved (e.g. age, ethnicity, gender, care experience, special educational needs, disabilities etc.), the outcomes children receive (i.e. no further action, out of court resolutions and court etc.) and first-time entrant and reoffending rates).
As such, a YJS enters its local out of court resolution data, then the ORPIC analyses it to return insights the service can act on. These include:
1. a score of local practice against the Guidance’s seven recommendations;
2. tailored feedback and benchmarking against the national average and the top 10% nationally; and
3. space to record an action plan.
The analytical value lies in comparison: seeing where local outcomes diverge from what would be expected, including where disparities appear between groups of children.
Commentary
The ORPIC is intended as a quality improvement tool rather than a performance management exercise. Its greatest value lies in helping services reflect on their own practice, identify areas for development and support continuous improvement. As with any data-driven tool, the quality of the insights will depend on the quality of the information entered, and the greatest benefits will be realised where findings are regularly reviewed by YJS managers, management boards and scrutiny panels to inform local decision-making.