Assessments

ONSET & ASSET Assessment Tools

Prevention : ONSET

• ONSET YJB Assessment Tool• Similar to ASSET • Dynamic risk factors assessed• Positive Factors • Risk of Serious Harm (ROSH)• Sex and Relationship • Drug and Alcohol Screening as appropriate • Learning Style (VAK) used

Prevention

What are the risk factors used in ONSET ?

Prevention : ONSET

• Living Arrangements

• Family and Relationships

• Education

• Neighbourhood

• Lifestyle

• Emotional and Mental Health

Prevention : ONSET

• Physical Health

• Perception of Self and Others

• Thinking and Behaviour

• Attitudes to Offending

• Motivation to Change

Differences between ONSET and ASSET

• No Offence Analysis in ONSET

• Positive Factors are attached to each of the individual factors not as a separate page

• CAF used more often to inform assessment

• No Drugs or M.Health screening tool used

• ‘Over to You’ NOT ‘What do you Think ?’

ONSET and ASSET

• Validation Process used to inform assessments :

• School/Education Provider

• Police/Safer Neighbourhood Team

• Health (both physical and emotional)

• YOT

• Any other agency that the family may be working with

Statutory

ASSET Assessment Tool

Statutory : ASSET

• Offence Analysis• 12 dynamic risk factors (Education split into

Statutory Education or Training/Employment)• Positive Factors • Vulnerability • Serious Harm • SQUIFA and SIFA• Drug and Alcohol Screening• Learning Style (VAK)• ‘What do you Think?’ (WDYT)

Does the evidence box…

• Evidence the responses to the questions in each section and provide necessary practical detail?

• Explain the connections with offending /behaviour both direct and indirect?

• Substantiate the score for the section?

Scoring

• Was this issue linked to past offending/ behaviour

• Direct or indirect link

• Always relevant or only sometimes

• Effect on offending/behaviour immediate or over a longer period

• Issue leads to offending/behaviour by itself or only contributes