‘Doing with’: Co-designing Youth Justice Services with young people and their carers
Move from listening to shaping services together
Date: Monday 4th November 2026 | Time: 2pm-4.230pm
Tickets: £120 | £60 YJLC Members
How can your Youth Justice Service turn feedback from young people and carers into meaningful change?
Participation needs to go beyond gathering views. It means involving young people and their carers in decisions—and showing how their contributions shape the support your service provides.
But with competing priorities, limited capacity and no dedicated participation lead in some services, knowing where to start—or how to build on existing work—can be challenging.
Join YJLC’s practical workshop to explore how you can make co-design part of everyday practice. Whether you are developing your approach or strengthening an established participation programme, this session will help you identify practical next steps for your service.
What you’ll gain
- A clear starting point: Understand user-centred design and how to develop this approach within your service.
- A path towards meaningful co-design: Explore how participation can grow from involvement in an individual order to shaping the wider service.
- Stronger Child First practice: Discover how co-design supports a strengths-based approach that values young people’s experiences and contributions.
- Ideas for embedding participation: Explore the leadership, co-production and governance needed to turn good intentions into sustained practice.
- Learning from other services: Share experiences with peers and learn how others have developed their participation programmes.
Turn “you said” into “we did”
Use this focused session to reflect on your current approach, explore challenges with colleagues from other services and identify ways to make young people’s and carers’ influence more visible.
Book your place now. Spaces are limited to allow time for discussion, reflection on your own service and meaningful peer-to-peer learning.
About the facilitator - Shauneen Lambe
Shauneen Lambe is an internationally recognised lawyer, qualified as both a barrister in the UK and an attorney in the USA. She began her career at the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, representing clients facing the death penalty — including those accused of offences committed as children. A founding leader in youth justice reform, Shauneen is an Ashoka Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow, and co-author of Youth Justice Law and Practice (the leading LAG textbook for lawyers).