Attention Youth Justice Heads of Services and Youth Justice Strategic Partnership Boards, It's Time To...

✅  Watch CEO Andrez Harriott BSc, MA's keynote speech at The Youth Justice Board Leaders Summit 2025.

✅ It calls on us to rethink and reshape the system, one that upholds fairness, equity, and meaningful support and ensures every child has the opportunity to thrive.

✅ Watch now and be part of the movement towards a more just and inclusive youth justice system.

🎥  See below how we have supported HMPPS Courts and Sentence Management Teams, helping hundreds of staff, senior leaders, and the higher leadership team transform their approach to practice and decision-making.

From Insight to Action: Tackling Disproportionality in Youth Justice

Partnering with Youth Justice Services to Challenge Disproportionality

The Liminality Group deliver a powerful and transformative training using our 7-Step Intercultural Navigation System focused on exploring disproportionality and disparity within youth justice.

This offer builds on our extensive national work with the NHS, Youth Justice Board, Youth Justice Services and Partnerships, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, and a range of private and third-sector organisations. Our approach is rooted in evidence, shaped by experience, and delivered with impact.

A Deeply Contained Space for Transformative Learning

Grounded in psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and systemic thinking, this training is more than informational; it is transformational. We create safe and reflective spaces where professionals can confront complex issues, explore their positioning, and develop the confidence to lead change.

Through a carefully facilitated mix of:

✅ Group discussions

✅ Experiential learning

✅ Structured reflection

✅ Culturally informed frameworks to support assessment and formulations

✅ Exploration of socio-historical and current inequalities

✅ Culturally sensitive approaches to practice

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how disparity is created and sustained, and what they can do about it in their own practice.

Our 7-Step Intercultural Navigation System Supports Transformation.

Andrez Harriott BSC, MA

✅ The Liminality Group (TLG) of companies was founded by CEO Andrez Harriott BSc, Pg-Cert, Pg-Dip, MA. 

✅ Andrez Harriott is a Criminologist, Sociologist and Organisational Consultant, trained within the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, specialising in the use of Systemic and Psychodynamic approaches, helping organisations to engage beyond the accepted narrative and explore beneath the surface. 

📖 He recently contributed to the ‘Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care’ (Routledge, 2022) text, focusing specifically on children in custody from marginalised communities. 

✅ The Liminality Group (TLG) provide various services to the NHS, MOJ, HMPPS, the YJB, and private and third-sector organisations.

✅ As organisational consultants, The Liminality Group work very discreetly with leaders, staff and organisations to support change.

Transforming Systems for Children and Families

✅ At the strategic level, we support Youth Justice Strategic Partnerships Boards to act with clarity and courage, mobilising their collective power and authority to create lasting change for children.

✅ We partner with Youth Justice Services and Strategic Partnership Boards across the country to drive meaningful, system-wide change. Through powerful experiential learning, we help organisations uncover the deeper “why” behind their work, building the foundation for bold, strategic action.

✅ Our approach helps strategic partnership boards to locate the problem within a framework of understanding, paying attention to organisational defences against anxiety arising from conversations surrounding racism, which can cause paralysis in action.

✅ Our approach enables strategic partnership boards to share the responsibility surrounding disproportionality rather than locating this within one person.

✅ The result? Organisations place the lived experiences of children at the centre of every decision.

💡 We recognise that many leaders have worked within this approach for decades, and apathy can set in when faced with consistent disappointment surrounding the lack of progress. We aim to rupture apathy and encourage a re-commitment to change.